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Species
European Feather Grass
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Common Name: sap grass
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,029
- With media
- 825
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- US, BRY, MICH, NY, NHMUK, IND
- Recorded in
- United States, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Russian Federation, France, Greece, Czechia
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Stipa pennata
- taxon name
- Stipa pennata
- taxon rank
- species
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- Stipa pennata
- taxon common name
- 羽状针茅
- taxon range
- Xinjiang
- short name
- S. pennata
- taxon author citation
- Tzvelev
- regional conservation status
- Endangered status
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Encyclopedic overview
Stipa pennata, commonly known as European feather grass, is a flowering plant and arid zone sand grass in the grass family Poaceae, which is grown as an ornamental plant for its feathery flowering spikes. It is one of the most common plants of the Eurasian Steppe from Mongolia in the east to the Puszta in Hungary and the Devínska Kobyla forest-steppe in Slovakia in the west. Its foliage is green in summer while the flowers are silvery-grey during the same season. It is 60–90 centimetres (24–35 in) high.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stipa pennata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.