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Plant: Hameln - Fountain Grass - Dwarf
Cenchrus alopecuroides 'Hameln'
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
Hameln is a compact Chinese fountain grass with dark green, arching linear leaves and bottlebrush flower spikes from midsummer into fall that age from green toward golden brown. It prefers full sun in dry to moist, well-drained soil, tolerates part shade with fewer flowers, and is drought tolerant once established and highly resistant to deer. NCSU notes it can self-seed aggressively. Cut the foliage to the ground in late winter.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Hameln is a compact Chinese fountain grass with dark green, arching linear leaves and bottlebrush flower spikes from midsummer into fall that age from green toward golden brown. It prefers full sun in dry to moist, well-drained soil, tolerates part shade with fewer flowers, and is drought tolerant once established and highly resistant to deer. NCSU notes it can self-seed aggressively. Cut the foliage to the ground in late winter.
- Flowers
- Bottlebrush-like spikes from mid summer to fall that age from green toward reddish-purple and golden brown.
- Foliage
- Linear, arching, bright green blades up to about 20 inches long that turn amber-yellow to tan in fall; hairless except a tuft at the base.
- Fruit
- Tan to cream-brown grain under 1 inch, released after a hard freeze and dispersed by wind or hooking on fur and clothing (species).
- Pruning
- Cut the foliage to the ground in late winter.
- Native range
- East Asia and Western Australia (species)
