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Vegetative Morphology

 
Plants annual.
Culms 7.5-80 cm.
Leaves evenly distributed.
Sheaths open.
Ligules 4-13 mm.
Blades 5.5-12 cm long, 1-8(10) mm wide.

Reproductive Morphology

 
Panicles (2)4-14(18) cm long, to 11 cm wide.
Pedicels 4-12 mm.
Spikelets (2)3-4(7) mm.
Florets 4-7(13).
Lower glumes 2-2.5 mm.
Upper glumes 2-3.5 mm.
Lowermost lemmas 1.6-2 mm.
Paleas about 1.5 mm.
Anthers 0.4-0.5 mm.
Caryopses 0.8-1 mm.

Chromosome Number(s)

2n = 10, 14

Typical Habitat(s)

Swamp margins, seasonal wetlands and around vernal pools, open woodlands, sandhills, roadsides, and pastures.

Nativity / Range

A native of the Mediterranean region.

In the Flora region, it is established from southern British Columbia south through western Oregon to California, and in the east from the Atlantic states to the Gulf Coast states, inland to Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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Name/Synonymy Publication Info

Briza minor L., Sp. pl. 1:70 (1753). LEC: LINN 88.1; Switzerland [C.E. Hubb. in Clayton, Flora of Tropical East Africa, Gramineae 1:53 (1970)].

Treatment From

Neil Snow.  Briza in Flora of North America, volume 24.  In prep.  Oxford University Press.

Fact Sheet Developed By

Pedro Oñativia Lake © 2006