Species Detail - Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea) - 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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Molinia caerulea
Purple Moor-grass
NBNSYS0000002499 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
mocae
(L.) Moench
flowering plant
Species
4086
543
106
30/08/1961
05/10/2011
1 January (recorded in 1988)
23 December (recorded in 2007)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Species Data from the National Vegetation Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/186/Species/28312>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)