Taxon: Briza minor L.

Common names:

• lesser quaking grass   (Source: F GB Ire ) – English
  
• little quaking grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• shivery grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• shivery Rhodes grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small quaking grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• petite amourette   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• petite brize   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• bole-bole   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-treme-treme   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• treme-treme-miúdo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• dvärgdarrgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya [n.]; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Jamaica
  Western South America: Colombia

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores

• also cultivated

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).
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• 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.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:129–247.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• 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).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Nicora, E. G. & Z. E. Rugolo de Agrasar. 1981. Los géneros sudamericanos afines a Briza L. (Gramineae). Darwiniana 23:288.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 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. 48:148.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Briza minor.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Briza minor.

Check other web resources for Briza minor 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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