PlantFiles: Burgundy Fountain Grass
Pennisetum macrostachyum 'Burgundy Giant'

One of my favorite dark wine grasses for seasonal planting
either in container or in the ground. Very similar to rubrum
fountain grass but its leaves are much wider and it growns
taller and the stocks are different, similar foxtails and
color. I usually have to order this on line most people
around this area only carry the rubrum but its well worth
finding. It just looks awsome when it matures and the
wind blows. Mine usually are slow to take off but they
eventually grown to 4 or more feet high. Some people
say it looks like dark wine colored corn stalks, but I think its just a beauty
to consider growing.

This is one of the best ornamental grasse I know. It grows in my garden since two years. In winter it is'nt very nice and I cut it back, but in spring there is a very rapid growing just in two months and in the end of june it riches full height.