Horsetail Feather Grass
Horsetail Feather Grass - Stipa tirsa Stev. = Stipa stenophylla (Czern. ex Lindem.) Trautv. = Stipa longifolia Borb. = Stipa cerariorum Pane.
Grows in meadow and upland steppes and water meadows in the subtropical and warm temperate zones of Europe, the Caucasus, Western Asia, the south of Western Siberia and Kazakhstan.
Plants 40-100 cm tall. Leaf blades folded lengthwise, very narrow (0.3-0.6 mm in diam.), rough; tongues of leaves of vegetative shoots up to 0.3 mm long. Blooms in late spring-early summer.
Requires bright places, propagated only by seeds.
Grows in meadow and upland steppes and water meadows in the subtropical and warm temperate zones of Europe, the Caucasus, Western Asia, the south of Western Siberia and Kazakhstan.
Plants 40-100 cm tall. Leaf blades folded lengthwise, very narrow (0.3-0.6 mm in diam.), rough; tongues of leaves of vegetative shoots up to 0.3 mm long. Blooms in late spring-early summer.
Requires bright places, propagated only by seeds.
Eng.: Horsetail Feather Grass. Bot.syn.: Stipa stenophylla (Czern. et Lindem.), Stipa pennata L. var. tirsa (Steven) Celak., Stipa longifolia Borb., Stipa cerariorum Pane.