''Stipa barbata'' is a species of perennial
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
native to southern
Europe
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,
North Africa
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, and the
Levant
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in the
Mediterranean Basin
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, and temperate
Asia
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.
The plant is a
bunchgrass
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...
with:
*culms that are 30–60 cm long
*leaf blades are flexuous, filiform, conduplicate or involute.
*leaf blades are 15–30 cm long by 1–2 mm wide.
References
GBIF entry* Flora Atlantica sive Historia Plantarum, quae in Atlante... 1:97, t. 27. 1798.
External links
— ''(kew.org)''
USDA Plants Profile: ''Stipa barbata''
barbata
Barbata (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about east of Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, a ...
Bunchgrasses of Africa
Bunchgrasses of Europe
Bunchgrasses of Asia
Flora of North Africa
Flora of Western Asia
Flora of Lebanon
Plants described in 1798
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