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Horsetail Feather Grass

Stipa tirsa

Horsetail Feather Grass
Photo: Daderot, Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Native range
Europe to W. Siberia and Caucasus
Climate
temperate

About

Stipa tirsa is a species of perennial grass native to Europe and temperate Asia. Culms are 40–100 cm long; leaf blades are filiform, involute, and 1–2 mm wide.

Where it grows

According to Plants of the World Online, Stipa tirsa is native to parts of Europe and Asia, occurring from the Iberian Peninsula eastwards to Siberia.

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 · Stipa petriei · Golden Feather Grass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stipa tirsa 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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