About Stipa pennata L.
Stipa pennata L., commonly called European feather grass, is a flowering sand grass adapted to arid zones that belongs to the grass family Poaceae. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant, valued for its feathery flowering spikes. This species is one of the most common plants found across the Eurasian Steppe, stretching from Mongolia in the east westward to Hungary’s Puszta and Slovakia’s Devínska Kobyla forest-steppe. In summer, its foliage is green, and its flowers are a silvery-grey color. It grows to a height between 60 and 90 centimetres (24 to 35 inches).
