Nigel Cattlin / Quaking grass (Briza media) spikelets flowering within panicle, close up. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Quaking grass (Briza media) spikelets flowering within panicle, close up. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Paul Hobson / Quaking-grass (Briza media) spikelets. Sheffield, England, UK. May.

Matthew Maran / Quaking grass (Briza media) flowers, Devon, England, UK, June.

Ingo Arndt / Quaking grass (Briza media), Germany

Ingo Arndt / Quaking grass (Briza media), Germany

Ingo Arndt / Quaking grass (Briza media), Germany

Nick Turner / Common quaking grass (Briza media) seed heads at Strawberry Banks, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT), Nature Reserve, Gloucestershire, UK. June.

Konrad Wothe / Quaking grass (Briza media) among wildflowers in mountain meadow, Upper Bavaria, Germany. June.

John Waters / Quaking-grass (Briza media) along with unidentified spider on stem, flower-rich meadow, Daneway Banks, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Quaking grass (Briza media) flowering on a chalk grassland slope, northeast Somerset, England, UK. May.

Nick Upton / Quaking grass (Briza media) flowering on a chalk grassland slope, northeast Somerset, England, UK. May.

Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) nymph well camouflaged on a flowering Quaking grass (Briza media), in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May

Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) nymph well camouflaged on a flowering Quaking grass (Briza media), in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May