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|accepted_name=Briza media
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Perennial quakinggrass;Amourette commune;Amour du vent
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Briza;Briza media
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Briza]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Briza media]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 614
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 15-75 cm. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; sheaths about 1/2 the length of the internodes, open about 1/2 their length; ligules about 0.5 mm, usually not decurrent, sometimes erose at the apices, truncate; blades 4-16 cm long, blades of the upper leaves shorter than those below, 1.9-3.2 mm wide, glabrous or scabridulous, margins strigose. <b>Panicles</b> 8-20 cm long, to almost as wide; pedicels 5-20 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-5.5 mm, mostly oval, with 3-6(10) florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 2.5-3.2 mm; upper glumes 2.5-4 mm; lowermost lemmas 3-4 mm, indistinctly 9- or 10-veined, apices broadly obtuse; paleas about 3 mm, V-shaped in cross section, scarious, margins hyaline and ciliolate; anthers 1.3-2 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.2-1.5 mm, distinctly flattened on 1 side. <b>2n</b> = 10, 14, 28.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Del.;Md.;Mass.;N.Y.;Calif.;Mich.;Ala.;Conn.;Vt.;Pa.;Colo.;Nfld. And Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;R.I.
|discussion=<p><i>Briza media</i> is native to chalk and clay grasslands of Europe. It grows in acid to calcareous soils in moist to somewhat dry, sunny conditions, in meadow floodplains, forest clearings, old meadows, and pastures. It is often grown as an ornamental, and can colonize artificial habitats such as roadsides, but does not appear to invade recently disturbed locations. In the Flora region, it is most abundant in eastern North America, and is found in a few widely scattered locations elsewhere.</p>
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|authority=L.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Del.;Md.;Mass.;N.Y.;Calif.;Mich.;Ala.;Conn.;Vt.;Pa.;Colo.;Nfld. And Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;R.I.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Briza
|species=Briza media
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