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quaking grass

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quaking grass, any plant of the genus Briza, annuals or perennials of the Gramineae (grass grass, any plant of the family Gramineae, an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in great
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 family), cultivated for the graceful clusters of seeds, which vibrate in a breeze and are used in everlasting everlasting or immortelle , names for numerous plants characterized by papery or chaffy flowers that retain their form and often their color when dried and are used for winter bouquets and decorations.
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 bouquets. The plants are native to temperate regions of Europe and South America and are now widely naturalized in North America. Quaking grass is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Gramineae.


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Quaking grass signifies frivolity and grass admits submission; love-in-a-mist says "you puzzle me".
As a result of this perpetual mowing, some plants have disappeared from this area including field scabious, quaking grass, yellow rattle and agrimony.
6 : QUAKING GRASS (Briza media russells) This lovely new form of quaking grass has delicate flower heads that tremble in the slightest breeze.
 
 
 
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