Pennisetum Fireworks
'Fireworks’, sometimes commonly called purple or red fountain grass, is an herbaceous, clump-forming, ornamental grass featuring upright culms and leaves that cascade in a vase-shaped form. It typically grows 3-4’ tall. The arching leaves are variegated with longitudinal stripes of burgundy, hot pink, green and white. Showy, fluffy, burgundy-purple flowers in bottlebrush-like spikes (to 12” long) bloom above the foliage clump in June and remain on the plant until frost, gradually turning pale brown as they mature. Flowers spikes are ornamentally attractive but do not set viable seed.
Zone 9-10 (grown as annual here)