Pennisetum alopecuroides
Fountain Grass
- Soft, bottle-brush flowers
- Flowers age from silver-pink to purple
- Upright to arching habit
- Golden yellow fall color
- Category: Ornamental Grass
- Hardiness Zone: 5-9
- Height: 2-5 ft
- Spread: 3-6 ft
- Bloom Color: Ivory
Narrow, green leaves in summer, changing to golden yellow in fall. Showy, silvery to pinkish-white, bristly, bottle brush-like flower spikes arch outward from the clump starting in late summer.
Critter Resistance
| • | Deer Resistant |
Exposure
| • | Full Sun |
Attributes
| • | Border or Bed |
| • | Container |
| • | Cut Flower/Foliage |
| • | Fast Growing |
| • | Low Maintenance |
| • | Mass Planting |
| • | Ornamental Grass |
Habit
| • | Upright |
Growing & Maintenance Tips for Pennisetum alopecuroides
Pennisetum prefers to be grown in rich loamy soil with good drainage and full sun or light shade. However, it will grow in rocky or sandy soil as long as it remains fairly moist. This grass resents having "wet feet". This species may be proagated by seed or division.