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Quaking Grasses
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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.

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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

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Quaking Grasses in A New Herbal, or History of Plants

A New Herbal, or History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.483

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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.