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Briza
Also called Quaking Grasses, Quacking Grass, Quaking Grass, Rattlesnake Grasses
Briza is a genus of small annual and perennial grasses, best known as quaking grasses for their seedheads that tremble in the slightest breeze. Commonly grown members include Briza maxima (greater quaking grass) and Briza media (common quaking grass), prized in borders and dried arrangements.
Briza is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family, native to northern temperate regions of Eurasia, North Africa, and certain islands in the Atlantic.
The group is generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze. Some of its members are grown as ornamental plants.
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