This perennial grass forms a large dense upright tufted habit. It has yellowish-green rough textured linear leaves up to 2m (6ft) long with sharp margins and the white feathery-like flowers appear on a long stalk above the foliage during summer. 

Hardiness zones 6 to 10 

Cortaderia selloana Is natuarally found in South America growing in open grasslands or along water courses on the coast and inland. 

It prefers a well drained fertile moist to wet sandy or clay loam in an open sunny position and is drought tolerant but frost tender.

Pampas Grass is grown for its stately clumping habit and its flower heads. It is planted in parks and large gardens as a specimen or used around a water feature or on embankments. It can be grown in large pots or tubs but is commonly known as a weed in moist warm climates where it appears on disturbed soils or in waste land. This plant is fast growing and will establish in one season but only flowers in the second or third year. ID 854

Cortaderia (kor-ta-DE-ree-a) selloana (sel-õ-AH-na)

Poaceae (poh_AY-see-ee)
Grass Family