Vegetative Morphology | |
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| Plants | annual or perennial; cespitose. |
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| Culms | 5-100 cm, unbranched. |
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| Internodes | hollow. |
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| Nodes | glabrous. |
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| Sheaths | open. |
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| Auricles | absent. |
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| Ligules | hyaline. |
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| Blades | flat. |
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Reproductive Morphology | |
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| Inflorescences | open panicles. |
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| Branches | sparsely strigose, capillary, spikelets usually pendulous. |
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| Spikelets | pedicellate, oval to triangular in side view, laterally compressed but the glumes and lemmas with broadly rounded backs. |
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| Florets | 4-12(15), distal florets rudimentary. |
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| Rachillas | glabrous, not prolonged beyond the distal rudiment. |
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| Disarticulation | above the glumes and between the florets. |
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| Glumes | subequal, faintly 3-7-veined. |
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| Calluses | short, glabrous. |
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| Lemmas | about as wide as long, unawned. |
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| Paleas | shorter than the lemmas. |
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| Lodicules | 2, joined or free, usually entire, sometimes toothed. |
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| Anthers | 3. |
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| Ovaries | glabrous. |
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Chromosome Number(s)x = 5, 7 Nativity / RangeNative to Eurasia and South America. Three European species are scattered throughout the more temperate parts of southern Canada and the United States. Additional NotesBriza is often grown for use in dried floral arrangements.
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Name/Synonymy Publication InfoBriza L., Sp. pl. 1:70 (1753). LEC: Briza minor L.. Treatment FromNeil Snow. Briza in Flora of North America, volume 24. In prep. Oxford University Press. Fact Sheet Developed ByPedro Oñativia Lake © 2006
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