Species Detail - Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards".

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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Pteridium aquilinum
Bracken
NBNSYS0000002031 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
ptaqu
(L.) Kuhn
fern
Species
1351
447
124
01/01/1970
21/09/2024
1 January (recorded in 1970)
27 December (recorded in 2003)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/409/Species/127338>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)