Pennisetum Rubrum Light Requirements - Garden Work

The most well known of the Pennisetums, Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’, commonly called Purple Fountain Grass, is the showiest of the genus, though all species are quite ornamental in form, texture, and coloring. Pennisetum / Fountain Grass Pennisetum is prized for its arching multitude of soft bottlebrush seed plumes. Lovely alone, in groups and in containers.

This ornamental grass features tidy finely-textured blades of rich green that move with the slightest breeze. Fall brings golden color to Dwarf Fountain Grass.