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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.
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. [1]
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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
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
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 ...
The Sierras Pampeanas (also called Central Sierras or Pampas Sierras) (English: Pampas Mountains) is a geographical region of Argentina.