| Scientific Name: | Briza media |
| Common Name: | quaking grass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Purple, May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump forming grass spreading by rhizomes; leaves blades mostly 5-15cm long x 4-10mm wide; spikelets compressed, imbricate, in open panicles up to 1m tall, as the grains mature in purplish to tan hop-like clusters, they quiver with any slight breeze as they dangle on thin stems (rachillas). | |