Cottea

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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| image = Cotta Grass imported from iNaturalist photo 12594525 on 6 January 2024.jpg

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| genus = Cottea

| parent_authority = Kunth[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/682019#page/85/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1829. Révision des Graminées 1: 84] in Latin

| species = pappophoroides

| authority = Kunth

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Cottea is a genus of plants in the grass family native to North and South America. There is only one known species, Cottea pappophoroides, native to the southwestern United States (southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas), Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.[https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Cottea%20pappophoroides.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map][https://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00152.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Cottea The Plant List search for Cottea] (The name Cottea sarmentosa was coined in 1854 for a species now known as Enneapogon desvauxii.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=405850 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families])