Slender Veldt Grass
Pennisetum
Fountain Grass
The soft inflorescences take their name from the Latin words penna and seta meaning feather-bristle. This alluring grass is a favorite, distinguished by arching, feathery bottlebrush flowers spilling over a cascading mound of foliage. A warm season grower, Fountain Grass welcomes hot weather and is widely distributed in both tropical and temperate areas.
Pennisetum spathiolatum (G-0511)
Each 12.25
A denizen of South Africa, this drought tolerant evergreen grass has low-growing narrow dark green blades that provide a verdant contrast to its caramel-colored tapers. The dense, abundantly produced inflorescences hover on jointed nearly invisible stems, some 2 to 3 ft. tall, while fashioning a playful see-through veil. Especially mesmerizing when grouped in a dry creek bed, a meadow or a water-wise garden, the Slender Veldt Grass asks only for a well-drained abode.
Blooms June–October
Size: 3' 0" – 4-1/2' high x 2' 0" wide.
Zone 6/7.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Foxtrot’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Cassian’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Ginger Love’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Moudry’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Piglet’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Red Head’
- Pennisetum ‘Fairy Tails’
- Pennisetum massaicum ‘Red Buttons’
- Pennisetum orientale
- Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’
- Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails’
- Pennisetum slopeduroides ‘JS Jommenik’
