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§1 Plant

Briza minor L.

vernacular little quakinggrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
BRMI2
GBIF
2702793
Rank
species
little quakinggrass (Briza minor)
Platephotograph · Ken-ichi UedaCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Briza
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 178 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 178 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 178 counties across 10 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 21 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 18 I
Florida view state ↗ 19 I
Georgia view state ↗ 27 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 56 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 21 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/BRMI2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2702793 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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