Stipa barbata is a species of perennial grass native to southern Europe, North Africa, and the Levant in the Mediterranean Basin, and temperate Asia. The plant is a bunchgrass with: culms that are 30–60 cm long leaf blades are flexuous, filiform, conduplicate or involute. leaf blades are 15–30 cm long by 1–2 mm wide. References GBIF entry Flora Atlantica sive Historia Plantarum, quae in Atlante... 1:97, t. 27. 1798. External links GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora — (kew.org) USDA Plants Profile: Stipa barbata barbata Bunchgrasses of Africa Bunchgrasses of Europe Bunchgrasses of Asia Flora of North Africa Flora of Western Asia Flora of Lebanon Plants described in 1798