Briza media

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Aveneae
Subtribus: Brizinae
Genus: Briza
Species: Briza media
Name

Briza media L. (1753)
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Briza clusii Desv, J. Bot. Agric. 3: 211. 1816.
Briza lutescens Desv, J. Bot. Agric. 3: 211. 1816.
Briza media subsp. lutescens (Desv.) Dumort., Obs. Gram. Fl. Belg., 145. 1824.
Briza media subsp. serotina (H.C.Hall) Dumort., Obs. Gram. Fl. Belg. 110. 1824.
Briza media var. albida Lej., Rev. Fl. Spa, 17. 1825.
Briza media var. clusii (Desv.) Rouy, Fl. Fr. 14: 179. 1913.
Briza media var. coarctata Babey, Fl. Jurass. 4: 274. 1846.
Briza media var. gracilior Spenn., Fl. Friburg. 1: 222. 1825.
Briza media var. hirsuta Grognot, in Carion, Catal. Rais. Pl. Vasc. Départ. Saône-et-Loire, Suppl. 100. 1864.
Briza media var. lutescens Tinant, Fl. Luxemb. 57. 1836.
Briza media var. lutescens Bréb., Fl. Normandie, éd. 2: 311. 1849, nom. illeg. non Tinant (1836).
Briza media var. nivea Bastard, Ess. Fl. Maine-et-Loire 41. 1809.
Briza media var. pallens Boreau, Fl. Centr. Fr. éd. 1, 2: 539. 1840.
Briza media var. pallens Le Gall, Fl. Morbihan 717. 1852.
Briza media var. pallescens Mabille, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 25: 609. 1864.
Briza media var. pallescens Tinant, Fl. Luxemb. 57. 1836.
Briza media var. pallida Blytt, Enum. Pl. Christiania 65. 1894.
Briza media var. repens Roth, Enum. Pl. Phan. Germ. 1: 340. 1827.
Briza media var. serotina H.C.Hall, Synops. Fl. Belg. 68. 1821.
Briza media var. stolonifera Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 765. 1866.
Briza pilosa Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 766. 1866.
Briza tremula Lam., Fl. Fr. 3: 587. 1779.

References

Tela Botanica (ed.) 2000 onwards: Tela Botanica. Le réseau de la botanique francophone. eFlore. Briza media. Association Tela Botanica, Montpellier, France. Accessed: 2014 Mar 21.
Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 70.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Briza media in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Mittleres Zittergras
suomi: Niittyräpelö, räpelö
magyar: Rezgőfű, Máriakönnye
Nederlands: Bevertjes
polski: Drżączka średnia
svenska: Darrgräs
Türkçe: Orta zembil otu

Briza media is a perennial grass in the family Poaceae and is a species of the genus Briza.

Common name includes quaking-grass, common quaking grass, cow-quake, didder, dithering-grass, dodder-grass, doddering dillies, doddle-grass, earthquakes, jiggle-joggles, jockey-grass, lady's-hair, maidenhair-grass, pearl grass, quakers, quakers-and-shakers, shaking-grass, tottergrass, wag-wantons
Description

Grows to 40cm and flowers June to September in the UK. Characterised by fine stems and hops-shaped green and purple spikelets.[1] Distinguished from the closely related Briza maxima by the size of the flower spikelets.
Distribution and habitat

This grass species is common in England and Wales [2] It grows in dry calcareous grassland.[3] Its seeds are consumed by many farmland birds.

Keila, Estonia

Bory Tucholskie National Park, Poland

References

Wildlife Trusts - Quaking Grass
Wildlife Trusts - Quaking Grass

NaureSpot - Quaking Grass

"Briza media". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2007-10-18.