Greater Quaking Grass - Briza maxima
Briza maxima is an erect grass to 60cm, forming a tuft of flat, linear leaves, with panicles of large, flat, ovate, pale yellow-white spikelets which dangle from slender branches.
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It can be naturalised or occurring casually on dry, bare banks and field margins, in cultivated ground, on sand dunes, sea-cliffs, rubbish tips, waste ground and wall-tops, and in pavement cracks.
Flowering June and July.
Annual
Widespread in Britain, usually occurring as a casual.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton
10 June 2020
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Saharima Roenisch
Knighton
10 June 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Giant Quaking Grass, Greater Quaking-grass
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Poaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 10/06/2020 (Roenisch, Saharima)
- Last record:
- 10/06/2020 (Roenisch, Saharima)
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Saharima Roenisch
Knighton
10 June 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton
10 June 2020
