The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

FEATHER-GRASS

Feather-grass is the popular name of Stipa pennnta, a native of dry places in the south of Europe. The leaves are rigid, setaceous, grooved; the awns exceedingly long, feathering to the point. It is an attractive garden plant in the summer, and is used for flower arranging in the winter when gathered before the seed is ripe, when the long feathering awns remain.
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