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Cortaderia selloana is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. [1] It is referred to by the common name pampas grass, [2] and is native to southern South America, including the Pampas region after which it is named.
The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain"), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
Cortaderia species are perennial grasses, characterised by robust culms and feathery inflorescent plumes held high above the foliage.Some species are relatively short, forming rounded hedgehog-like clumps less than 0.5 m tall, but many species, including Cortaderia selloana and Cortaderia jubata form wide tussocks, up to 4 m tall.
The Semi-arid Pampas cover an area of 327,000 square kilometers (126,000 sq mi), including western Buenos Aires Province, southern Cordoba and San Luis Provinces and most of La Pampa Province. The area is, in all, home to no more than a million people, who generally enjoy some of the nation's lowest poverty rates.
Pampas grass or pampas-grass or Pap's grass is a common name which may refer to any of several similar-looking, tall-growing species of grass: Species of Cortaderia including: Cortaderia selloana and its selected cultivars
Pampas cat, a small wild cat; Pampas deer, a deer; Pampas fox, a medium-sized zorro; Pampas meadowlark, a bird; Cortaderia selloana, pampas grass, a flowering plant; Salpichroa origanifolia, pampas lily-of-the-valley, a flowering plant
Rurrenabaque is a small town in the north of Bolivia, on the Beni River.It is the capital of Rurrenabaque Municipality.In recent years, it has become popular with international tourism as it is an easy gateway for visits to Madidi National Park, which is within the Bolivian rainforest.
This pampas grass, Cortaderia jubata, has long, thin, razor-edged leaves forming a large bunch grass tussock from which the eye-catching inflorescences arise. At the top of a stem several meters in height is an inflorescence of plumelike spikelets. These panicles are pink or purplish when new and they gradually turn cream or white. Each ...