Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ornamental grasses of the tribe Paniceæ, distinguished by the joint at the summit of the pedicel, surmounted by an involucre of somewhat plumose bristles including one to three narrow spikelets.
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- noun a genus of Old World grasses
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Examples
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Just plunge a few among your shorter ornamental grasses - such as pennisetum 'Piglet' or 'Hameln' - and you'll be amazed each August at the glorious flowers.
My Plant Safari Photos (at Sugar Creek) « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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I added a 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansia (angel's trumpet - it'll have huge drooping yellow-orange flowers later in the summer), 'Prince' pennisetum (should make dark swords to 5 '), and a few trailing lavender lantanas.
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If you want to attempt to get rid of the pennisetum ‘Moudry’ you could use Ornamec.
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Especially since we did not mow the liriope and pennisetum, we are feeling guilty about it being an eyesore.
Twiggy « Fairegarden 2010
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The NE asters are not the most graceful in death here either, although the ones that have been moved to the front look fine surrounded by the thuggish moudry pennisetum.
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The black seeded Moudry pennisetum has sown throughout and the liriope has spread.
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Like the pennisetum rubrum that is an annual here, worth it!
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Being wind-pollenated, most grasses are BAD, BAD for allergies – pennisetum gets a 10 rating the worst on the OPALS allergy scale, blue fescue gets a 9, carex/sedge is also a 9.
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The pennisetum is quite aggressive, but the others are much more mild mannered.
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Now blooming is the black seeded fountain grass, pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Moudry’, it is quite invasive but that is allright in this bed.
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