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Briza media

In chalk downlands meadow, North Downs, Surrey.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 17/06/2013, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

quaking grass

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Grasses

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Briza media L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1881

Origin

Eurasia

Other information

Etymology

briza: From Greek brizo ‘to nod’ referring to the nodding motion of the spikelets

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

BRIMED

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