Briza maxima is an erect grass to 60cm, forming a tuft of flat, linear leaves, with panicles of large, flat, ovate, pale yellow-white spikelets which dangle from slender branches.

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It can be naturalised or occurring casually on dry, bare banks and field margins, in cultivated ground, on sand dunes, sea-cliffs, rubbish tips, waste ground and wall-tops, and in pavement cracks.

Flowering June and July.

Annual

Widespread in Britain, usually occurring as a casual.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.