GRASS FAMILY
Briza maxima(LARGE QUAKING GRASS)
(Küpeli Şakırdak)
(Großes Zittergras)
Gramineae (Poaceae)
Annual herbs. Stem erect, up to 40 cm. Leaves alternate; leaf blades linear to lanceolate. Inflorescence paniculate, with papery Spikelets drooping on slender stalks. Spikelets ovate, up to 20 x 10 mm. Glumes broadly orbicular-reniform. Florets 10-18. Lemmas broadly cordate. Fruit an obovoid to ellipsoid caryopsis. Dried inflorescence are used as ornamental. Fl. April-May. Open Pinus brutia woodland, phrygana, rocky limestone slopes, dunes, grasslands. fallow fields and waste places, s.l.
Türkiye, S. Europe; naturalised elsewhere, including N. America, Japan and Australia.
