Great Quaking Grass is an annual or short lived perennial, ornamental, summer grass native to the Mediterranean countries. It is good for dried arrangements and is fire resistant . This plant has open, puffy, overlapping, scale-like seeds, inconspicuous flowers, and is reddish-brown or tan, touched with green. Great Quaking Grass does best in full sun and well-drained soil and tolerates most soil types, including poor soil. This plant is also sold as Briza major and may be confused with Briza Minor although Briza Minor is smaller in size. Great Quaking Grass is considered invasive in California. Diseases, Insect Pests, and Other Plant Problems: No known diseases or insect pests.
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.