Stipa is a genus of around 300 large perennial hermaphroditic grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and spear grass. They are placed in the subfamily Pooideae and the tribe Stipeae, which also contains many species formerly assigned to Stipa, which have since been reclassified into new genera.

Stipa es un género de gramíneas (Poaceae), perennes y cespitosas, que comprende aproximadamente 250 especies distribuidas por todo el globo. 1 . En las regiones esteparias de América, el género Stipa es con frecuencia dominante.

Sep 28, 2022 · Stipa barbata (Feather grass)- a wonderful, elegant grass for a dry spot. Thin grassy leaves appear above neat clumps of long, silky, silvery-green awns which wave and shimmer in the slightest breeze.

A synopsis of the genus Stipa (Poaceae) in Middle Asia, including a key to species identification, an annotated checklist, and phytogeographic analysis. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 105: 1-63.

Stipa Common name: Feather grass These perennial grasses add a subtle haze to borders with their fluffy or oat-like flowerheads. Some are evergreen, keeping their leaves all year, while others are deciduous, their leaves drying out and dying over winter, then re-sprouting in spring.

Stipa is a family of ornamental and frothy feather, needle, and spear grasses and will add structure, texture, and movement to the calmest of landscapes. This is a low-water perennial that thrives in full sun.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 78 (1753) The native range of this genus is Temp. & Subtropical to Tropical Mountains.

Stipa Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 78. 1753. Perennials, forming dense tussocks, old basal sheaths persistent. Leaf blades filiform to setaceous, convolute, abaxial surface smooth or scabrid, adaxial surface prominently ribbed. Inflorescence usually a contracted panicle, enclosed in uppermost leaf sheath or shortly exserted, spikelets few.

Jun 30, 2016 · Stipa dickorei sp. nov. from the Western Tibetan Plateau (China) is described. The new species is morphologically similar to S. regeliana, but they differ from each other in the length of ligules of vegetative shoots.

Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that the altitude and latitude were the main environmental factors affecting endophytic fungal community distribution in the roots of Stipa sp. in the six steppe types.