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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.
Stipa tenacissima
Stipa tenacissima is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula.
Stipa pennata
Stipa pennata, common name European feather grass, or Orphan maidenhair is a flowering plant and arid zone sand grass in the grass family Poaceae, which is grown as an ornamental plant for its feathery flowering spikes, common to the Puszta in Hungary and the Devínska Kobyla forest-steppe in Slovakia. Its foliage is green in summer while the flowers are silvery-grey during the same season.
Stipa-Caproni
The Stipa-Caproni, also generally called the Caproni Stipa, was an experimental Italian aircraft designed in 1932 by Luigi Stipa and built by Caproni. It featured a hollow, barrel-shaped fuselage with the engine and propeller completely enclosed by the fuselage—in essence, the whole fuselage was a single ducted fan.
Stipa speciosa
Stipa speciosa (syn. Achnatherum speciosum is a species of grass known by the common name desert needlegrass.
Stipa avenacea
Stipa avenacea - renamed Piptochaetium avenaceum, and commonly called black oat grass, blackseed needle grass or blackseed speargrass, is a perennial bunchgrass native to Eastern North America. It is a member of the grass family Poaceae.
Stipa capensis
Stipa capensis, the Mediterranean needle-grass, cape rice grass, Mediterranean steppegrass or twisted-awned speargrass, is an annual grass from family Poaceae.It is normally found in the Persian Gulf desert ad semi-desert biome. In Persian it is called bahman and is probably the same plant which was used in the Persian festivity of bahmanagān.
Stipa lemmonii
Stipa lemmonii is a species of grass known by the common name Lemmon's needlegrass. It is native to western North America, where its distribution extends from British Columbia to southern California.This perennial grass forms a dense clump of stems up to 90 centimetres tall.
Stipagrostis obtusa
Stipagrostis obtusa is a perennial grass belonging to the grass family (Poaceae). It is a widespread species, being native to North Africa, Mauritania, Chad, Ethiopia, Southern Africa, Western Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan.Stipagrostis obtusa is used as fodder grass in Namibia, it can survive on an annual rainfall of about 150 millimetres (5.9 in).
Stipa zalesskii
Stipa zalesskii is a species of grass in the Poaceae family, endemic in Europe and Asia. It's especially important grass in Eurasian steppe.
Luhačovice
Luhačovice is a spa town in the Zlín Region, Moravia, Czech Republic. It occupies a valley whose elevation is a minimum of 250 m above sea level.