Common names:

• lesser quaking grass  (Source: F GB Ire) - English
• little quaking grass  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• shivery grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• shivery Rhodes grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• small quaking grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• petite amourette  (Source: L Noms French ed6) - French
• petite brize  (Source: L Noms French ed6) - French
• bole-bole  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-treme-treme  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• treme-treme-miúdo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• dvärgdarrgräs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental;

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt, Libya (n.), Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia

Europe

• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily)
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• Mexico, United States

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Jamaica
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile


Uncertain

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Azores]

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=7727. Accessed 5 July 2024.