Species Detail - Hard-fern (Blechnum spicant) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Species Data from the National Vegetation Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Blechnum spicant
Hard-fern
Acrostichum spicant, Blechnum boreale nom. illegit., Hard Fern, Lomaria spicant, Osmunda borealis nom. illegit., Osmunda spicant
N/A
blspi
(L.) Roth
fern
Species
1799
505
104
01/06/1965
26/09/2011
1 January (recorded in 1970)
25 December (recorded in 2018)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Species Data from the National Vegetation Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Hard-fern (Blechnum spicant), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/186/Species/127342>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)