Taxon: Cortaderia jubata (Lemoine ex Carrière) Stapf

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*, HI*°, OR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Andean pampas grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• pampas grass   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• pink pampas grass   (Source: F NSWales ) – English
  
• purple pampas grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pampasgras   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• sacuara   (Source: Ruizia 13:222.) – Spanish (Peru)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Tucuman; Chile

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Free State, Gauteng, Western Cape
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland [s.e.], Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia [s.w.]
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

References:

• Australia's Virtual Herbarium (on-line resource).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Connor, H. E. & E. Edgar. 1974. Names and types in Cortaderia Stapf (Gramineae). Taxon 23:598.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jara, A. & M. Vilà. 2010. Risk analysis of potential invasive plants in Spain. J. Nat. Conservation 18:34–44.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• 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.
• Okada, M. et al. 2009. Inferring the introduction history of the invasive apomictic grass Cortaderia jubata using microsatellite markers. Diversity & Distrib. 15:148–157. [this study identified southern Ecuador as the source of the original horticultural introduction].
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramineas de Bolivia.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:222.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• 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 jubata.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cortaderia jubata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Gynerium jubatum Lemoine ex Carrière (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Cortaderia jubata (Lemoine ex Carrière) Stapf:

• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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