Stipa glareosaP.A.Smirn.

needlegrass

WFO wfo-0000902115 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. a Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-22 / obs. 152925026
Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. b Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152860865
Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152925055
Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152860881
Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152860891
Stipa glareosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152925085

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Stipa glareosa is native: Afghanistan, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Xinjiang AfghanistanBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaQinghaiTadzhikistanTibetXinjiang
Native distribution of Stipa glareosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Stipa caucasica f. desertorum Roshev.
  • Stipa caucasica subsp. desertorum (Roshev.) Tzvelev
  • Stipa caucasica subsp. glareosa (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev
  • Stipa desertorum (Roshev.) Ikonn.
  • Stipa glareosa var. langshanica Y.Z.Zhao
  • Stipa glareosa var. nemegetica M.Nobis
  • Stipa langshanica (Y.Z.Zhao) Y.Z.Zhao
  • Stipa minuscula F.M.Vázquez

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.