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Needle Grasses
Stipa
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.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
European Feather Grass
speciesStipa pennata
Dwarf Feather Grass
speciesStipa capillata
Stipa lessingiana
speciesStipa lessingiana
golden feather grass
speciesStipa pulcherrima
Stipa borysthenica
speciesStipa borysthenica
Horsetail Feather Grass
speciesStipa tirsa
Stipa glareosa
speciesStipa glareosa
Stipa eriocaulis
speciesStipa eriocaulis
Stipa krylovii
speciesStipa krylovii
Stipa lagascae
speciesStipa lagascae
rough-leaved feather grass
speciesStipa offneri
Stipa ucrainica
speciesStipa ucrainica
Stipa austroitalica
speciesStipa austroitalica
Stipa sareptana
speciesStipa sareptana
Stipa dasyphylla
speciesStipa dasyphylla
Stipa lithophila
speciesStipa lithophila
Stipa zalesskyi
speciesStipa zalesskyi
Stipa iberica
speciesStipa iberica
rush-leaved feather grass
speciesStipa juncea
Stipa dregeana
speciesStipa dregeana
Stipa tianschanica
speciesStipa tianschanica
Stipa arabica
speciesStipa arabica
Stipa caucasica
speciesStipa caucasica
Stipa hans-meyeri
speciesStipa hans-meyeri
Stipa grandis
speciesStipa grandis
puna needle grass
speciesStipa brachychaeta
Stipa neaei
speciesStipa neaei
Baical needlegrass
speciesStipa baicalensis
Stipa korshinskyi
speciesStipa korshinskyi
Stipa drobovii
speciesStipa drobovii
Stipa barbata
speciesStipa barbata
Stipa pontica
speciesStipa pontica
Stipa orientalis
speciesStipa orientalis
Stipa dasyvaginata
speciesStipa dasyvaginata
Stipa atlantica
speciesStipa atlantica
Stipa daghestanica
speciesStipa daghestanica
Stipa caragana
speciesStipa caragana
Stipa etrusca
speciesStipa etrusca
Stipa ambigua
speciesStipa ambigua
Stipa bungeana
speciesStipa bungeana
Stipa transcarpatica
speciesStipa transcarpatica
Stipa holosericea
speciesStipa holosericea
Stipa hohenackeriana
speciesStipa hohenackeriana
Stipa sanluisensis
speciesStipa sanluisensis
Stipa plumosa
speciesStipa plumosa
Stipa kirghisorum
speciesStipa kirghisorum
Stipa apertifolia
speciesStipa apertifolia
Stipa philippii
speciesStipa philippii
Stipa petriei
speciesStipa petriei
Stipa aliena
speciesStipa aliena
Stipa scirpea
speciesStipa scirpea
Stipa sosnowskyi
speciesStipa sosnowskyi
Stipa paramilloensis
speciesStipa paramilloensis
Stipa himalaica
speciesStipa himalaica
Stipa styriaca
speciesStipa styriaca
Stipa annua
speciesStipa annua
Stipa karataviensis
speciesStipa karataviensis
Stipa illimanica
speciesStipa illimanica
Stipa mongolorum
speciesStipa mongolorum
Stipa subsessiliflora
speciesStipa subsessiliflora
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Stipa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72378.