Tall grass around nearly barren setting shows a species not commonly found (4,5)

'a species not commonly found' is the definition.

'tall grass around nearly barren setting' is the wordplay.
'tall grass' becomes 'reed' (I've seen this before).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'setting' indicates an anagram.
'barren' with its last letter taken off is 'barre'.
'barre' anagrammed gives 'arebr'.
'reed' placed around 'arebr' is 'RARE BREED'.

'shows' is the link.