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Pampas grasses
Cortaderia
Cortaderia is a genus of plants in the Poaceae or grass family of plants.
All current species included in the Cortaderia genus are native to South and Central America, ranging from the Patagonia region of southern Chile and Argentina, to Costa Rica. For many years, five species native to New Zealand were included in the genus, but since 2011 these have been since reclassified into the genus Austroderia containing only species native to New Zealand.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pampas Grass
speciesCortaderia selloana
Purple Pampas Grass
speciesCortaderia jubata
Cortaderia nitida
speciesCortaderia nitida
Cortaderia hieronymi
speciesCortaderia hieronymi
Cortaderia speciosa
speciesCortaderia speciosa
Cortaderia rudiuscula
speciesCortaderia rudiuscula
Whitegrass
speciesCortaderia pilosa
Cortaderia atacamensis
speciesCortaderia atacamensis
Cortaderia sericantha
speciesCortaderia sericantha
Cortaderia araucana
speciesCortaderia araucana
Cortaderia bifida
speciesCortaderia bifida
Cortaderia columbiana
speciesCortaderia columbiana
Cortaderia hapalotricha
speciesCortaderia hapalotricha
Cortaderia modesta
speciesCortaderia modesta
Cortaderia pungens
speciesCortaderia pungens
Cortaderia egmontiana
speciesCortaderia egmontiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52715.