Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nassella tenuissima is a species of grass known by the common names Mexican feathergrass, [2] finestem needlegrass, [3] fineleaved nassella, [4] and Argentine needle-grass. [5] It is native to the south-western United States, northern Mexico [ 4 ] and Argentina. [ 5 ]
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.
Nassella pulchra – purple needlegrass; currently reclassified as Stipa pulchra. A native grass of California that was once a dominant species in California grasslands before invasive European grasses became dominant. The seeds were an important food source for many of the Indigenous peoples of California. Today, the bunchgrass is the State ...
Media related to Stipa tenacissima at Wikimedia Commons; Stipa tenacissima Spanish information Archived 2018-11-30 at the Wayback Machine; McQuarrie, Gavin (1995). European influence and tribal society in Tunisia during the nineteenth century: the origins and impact of the trade in esparto grass 1870–1940 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Durham.
When gardening near natural wildland-urban interfaces, one should take care to avoid planting invasive species, such as Cortaderia jubata (native to Argentina and the Andes) [2], Pennisetum setaceum (native to northeastern Africa and western Asia) [3], and Nassella tenuissima (syn. Stipa tenuissima; native to New Mexico, Texas, and South ...
Members of the genus are commonly known as needle-and-thread grass or needlegrass. [2] The Hesperostipa species, formerly called Stipa, are endemic to North America. The new name adds Classical Greek: ἕσπερος, romanized: hesperos, lit. 'western', as other Stipa species are found on the Eurasian continent (i.e., the eastern hemisphere ...
Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa, Spain and Portugal. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum are the species used to produce esparto.
Achnatherum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family, Poaceae.It includes 20 species of needlegrass native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa. [1] [2] Several needlegrass species have been switched between Achnatherum and genus Stipa; taxonomy between the two closely related genera is still uncertain.