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Briza minor

Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 26/11/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Ligule. Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 26/11/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Mount Stewart, Manawatu. Dec 2012.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, 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>

At Coromandel, October.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Coromandel, October.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common names

shivery grass

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Grasses

Simplified description

This tuft-forming grass grows up to 45 cm tall. It has a cluster of ver small (2–5 mm) heart-shaped seed heads of slender forked branches. Seeds appear in summer and are pale green (Ermert and Clapp 1998).

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Briza minor L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1867

Origin

Mediterranean

Life cycle and dispersal

Reproduces via seed or bulbils

Other information

Etymology

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

minor: Smaller

NVS code

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