Briza minorL.

Little quaking-grass

WFO wfo-0000854792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Briza minor, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt
fig. a Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-19 / obs. 199380328
Briza minor, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194319957
Briza minor, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190398802
Briza minor, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt
fig. d Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184848521
Briza minor, photographed by Garth Harwood
fig. e Garth Harwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197796213
Briza minor, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. f Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186931809
Briza minor, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. g Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190881239
Briza minor, photographed by vesca
fig. h vesca, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186823622

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Flowering n = 267 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 267 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Briza aspera Knapp
  • Briza deltoidea Burm.f.
  • Briza gracilis hort.
  • Briza gracilis G.Nicholson
  • Briza minima G.Nicholson
  • Briza minor f. concolor Maire
  • Briza minor f. purpurascens Maire
  • Briza minor var. virens (L.) Rouy
  • Briza tremula var. minor (L.) Koeler
  • Briza trichotoma Steud.
  • Briza virens L.
  • Briza virens var. minor (L.) Chaub.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.