Taxon: Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult. f.) Asch. & Graebn.

Common names:

• pampas grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pampasgras   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• silwergras   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – Afrikaans
  
• herbe de la pampa   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Pampasgras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cana-dos-pampas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-dos-pampas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-penacho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cortadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• paina   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• penacho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pluma   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pampasgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (in New Zealand fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Libya; Tunisia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Western Cape
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland [s.e.], South Australia [s.e.], Tasmania, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sardinia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile - Juan Fernandez

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Jiangsu, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [occasionally cultivated].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Herrera-Arrieta, Y. 2001. Las Gramíneus de Durango.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Linder, H. P. et al. 2010. A generic classification of the Danthonioideae (Poaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 97:342.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rosengurtt, B. et al. 1970. Gramineas Uruguayas. 219.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cortaderia selloana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cortaderia selloana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cortaderia selloana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Arundo selloana Schult. & Schult. f. (basionym)
  
• (=) Cortaderia argentea (Nees) Stapf
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult. f.) Asch. & Graebn.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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