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Stipa petriei

Stipa petriei
Photo: John Barkla, CC BY 4.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
New Zealand South I.
Climate
temperate

About

Stipa petriei, synonym Achnatherum petriei, is a threatened New Zealand species of true grass in the tribe Poeae.

Where it grows

Stipa petriei is endemic to South Canterbury and Central Otago in New Zealand. It is found up to 1000 metres above sea level, largely on dry stony ground, as well as limestone and schit outcrops.

Other Stipa plants

Piptochaetium avenaceum · Stipa barbata · Stipa bavarica · Stipa borysthenica · Dwarf Feather Grass · Stipa dregeana · Stipa leptogluma · Needle Grass · Stipa milleana · European feather grass · Golden Feather Grass · Horsetail Feather Grass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stipa petriei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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