It means very extensive plain. Flat land and extensive. It is a type of biome or training plant, extensive, flat and primarily herbaceous vegetation. Ground or flat very extreme weather and little rain. In Colombia is a surname of Spanish origin. Steppe is the name of a municipality in the province of Seville. It is also another common name for some plants called Jara (genera Cistus and Halimium family Cistaceae, are herbaceous plants). There is also another so-called plant in Spain steppe: is the Hypericum balearicum of the Hipericaceae family, which also receives the names of wort or St. John's wort in the Balearic Islands.