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ˈpampas-ˌgrass
[f. pampa]
The popular name of a gigantic grass, Cortaderia selloana, having ample silky panicles of silvery hue borne on stalks rising to the height of twelve or fourteen feet; a native of South America, whence it was introduced into Europe in 1843 as an ornament of lawns and shrubberies.
1850–1Paxton Flower Garden I. 175. 1851 Lindley & Paxton Paxton's Flower Garden I. 175 This noble plant, now called the Pampas Grass, in consequence of its inhabiting the vast plains of S. America so named, has been introduced within a few years through Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 821 The beautiful Pampas grass..throwing out leaves six or eight feet long. 1897O. Stapf in Gard. Chron. Ser. iii. XXII. 396 The occurrence of C. argentea in the pampas is by no means so general as to justify the name ‘Pampas-grass’, and the less so as the Cortaderia is much more common in the Andes, ascending there to high altitudes. 1900L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. II. 703/1 The popular name ‘Pampas Grass’ is now unchangeable, but the plant does not grow on the pampas or vast grassy plains of South America, but in the mountains. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 76 A Picasso reproduction is not considered ‘amusing’ unless flanked by pampas grass. 1950G. Brenan Face of Spain iii. 56 Red branched tamarisks and tufts of pampas grass. 1973F. A. Boddy Foliage Plants vii. 126 The pampas grass..makes such a splendid specimen plant in a lawn, with or without its great feathery plumes in the autumn. |