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Quaking Grasses
Briza
Briza is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family, native to northern temperate regions of Eurasia, North Africa, and certain islands in the Atlantic.
The group is generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze. Some of its members are grown as ornamental plants.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Greater Quaking Grass
speciesBriza maxima
Quaking-grass
speciesBriza media
Little quaking-grass
speciesBriza minor
Spiked Quaking-grass
speciesBriza humilis
Briza marcowiczii
speciesBriza marcowiczii
Briza monandra
speciesBriza monandra
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57160.