feather grass

Any of various grasses, especially of the genera Nassella and Stipa, having feathery spikelets with sharp awns. Also called needle grass, spear grass.

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feather grass

(Plants) a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence

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The feather grass or stipa tenuissima has to be one of the best and most graceful of all varieties.

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Cover the ground with Stipa tenuissima, also known as Mexican feather grass, planting in bold drifts of three or more plants so the vaselike clumps of leaves look like a foamy sea.

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