It is one of the common names of a plant in the Poaceae family and is used as an ornamental. It also receives the names of pony tail, Mexican feather, Stipe from Mexico, estopace, esparto. Its scientific name is Stipa tuneifolia or Stipa tunissima . It is also the castilianization of the term Stipa, which is the name of a botanical genus of the family Poaceae. It means in Greek steppe or fiber.
