Stipa

Pony tails, Stipa, Feather grass

Compact perennial grass. Stipa can be evergreen or deciduous, mostly perennial grasses with arching, folded or rolled, linear leaves and narrow panicles of often long-awned spikelets in summer and autumn

Classification

  • Common Names: Pony tails, Stipa, Feather grass

  • Family: poaceae

  • Variety: tenuissima

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Mexican feather grass

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stipea in a pot

Propagation Notes

  • Plant Type: Grass

  • Propagation: Division

  • Hardiness: Hardy H5-H1 (<-10)

  • Flowering Season:

Propagate by seed sown in pots in a cold frame in spring or by division in spring

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Feather grass

Golden Oats, Giant Oats

Stipa can be evergreen or deciduous, mostly perennial grasses with arching, folded or rolled, linear leaves and narrow panicles of often long-awned spikelets in summer and autumn

  1. gigantea is a robust tufted evergreen grass to 2m, with arching linear green leaves and large panicles of oat-like, long-awned purplish flowers which ripen to gold

Classification

  • Common Names: Golden Oats, Giant Oats

  • Family: Poaceae

  • Variety: gigantea

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ull grown

Propagation Notes

  • Plant Type: Grass

  • Propagation: Seed

  • Hardiness: Hardy H5-H1 (<-10)

  • Flowering Season:

Propagate by seed sown in pots in a cold frame in spring or by division in late winter to early spring

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Stipa gigantea Golden Oats seed packet