Taxon: Briza maxima L.

Common names:

• big quaking grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• blowfly grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• great quaking grass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• greater quaking grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• large quaking grass   (Source: F Iraq ) – English
  
• quaking grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• da ling feng cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• italienskt darrgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Jamaica
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Honduras
  Western South America: Colombia
  Southern South America: Chile

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:129–247.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:147.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Briza maxima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Briza maxima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Briza maxima.

Check other web resources for Briza maxima L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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