{"id":2586,"date":"2010-03-25T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowersnewx\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2011-07-31T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T05:20:34","slug":"pennisetum-setaceum-crimson-fountaingrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/2586\/pennisetum-setaceum-crimson-fountaingrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennisetum setaceum &#8211; Crimson Fountaingrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Pennisetum-setaceum-1.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" title=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Pennisetum-setaceum-2.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" title=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" width=\"400\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/images\/wildflowers\/plants\/Pennisetum-setaceum-3.jpg\" class=\"post-photo\" alt=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" title=\"Pennisetum setaceum - Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass\" width=\"400\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Plant Name<\/p>\n<p><span>Scientific Name:<\/span> <em>Pennisetum setaceum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Synonyms:<\/span> <em>Pennisetum ruppelii<\/em>, <em>Phalaris setacea<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Common Names:<\/span> Crimson Fountaingrass, Fountain Grass<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Plant Characteristics<\/p>\n<p><span>Duration:<\/span> Perennial<\/p>\n<p><span>Growth Habit:<\/span> Graminoid<\/p>\n<p><span>Arizona Native Status:<\/span> Introduced. This naturalized ornamental grass is native to Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span>Habitat:<\/span> Desert, Upland (lower elevation), Riparian. This attractive, weedy grass grows in canyons, on rocky hillsides, and along roadsides.<\/p>\n<p><span>Flower Color:<\/span> Inconspicuous (yellow)<\/p>\n<p><span>Flowering Season:<\/span> Summer, Fall<\/p>\n<p><span>Height:<\/span> To 3 1\/2 feet (1.1 m) tall and equally as wide<\/p>\n<p><span>Description:<\/span> The tiny flowers are hidden in long, narrowly cylindrical, upright to arching, feathery, pink or purplish aging to white inflorescences on tall, slender stems above the leaves. The numerous leaf blades are long, narrowly linear, green to tinged purplish, and upright, arching, and\/or drooping. The plants are graceful and fountain-shaped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">Classification<\/p>\n<p class=\"classify\"><span>Kingdom:<\/span> Plantae &#8211; Plants<br \/>\n<span>Subkingdom:<\/span> Tracheobionta &#8211; Vascular plants<br \/>\n<span>Superdivision:<\/span> Spermatophyta &#8211; Seed plants<br \/>\n<span>Division:<\/span> Magnoliophyta &#8211; Flowering plants<br \/>\n<span>Class:<\/span> Liliopsida &#8211; Monocotyledons<br \/>\n<span>Subclass:<\/span> Commelinidae<br \/>\n<span>Order:<\/span> Cyperales<br \/>\n<span>Family:<\/span> Poaceae &#8211; Grass family<br \/>\n<span>Genus:<\/span> <em>Pennisetum<\/em> Rich. ex Pers. &#8211; fountaingrass<br \/>\n<span>Species:<\/span> <em>Pennisetum setaceum<\/em> (Forssk.) Chiov. &#8211; crimson fountaingrass<\/p>\n<p class=\"special\">More About This Plant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/county?state_name=Arizona&#038;statefips=04&#038;symbol=PESE3\">Arizona County Distribution Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View photographs and a description of the plant Pennisetum setaceum, commonly known as Crimson Fountaingrass or Fountain Grass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,226,21,11,172,25,29,96,33,225,32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desert-plants","category-fall-blooming-plants","category-graminoids","category-inconspicuous-arizona-flowers","category-inconspicuous-flowers","category-introduced-wildflowers-and-plants","category-perennials","category-poaceae-grass-family","category-riparian-and-wetland-plants","category-summer-blooming-plants","category-upland-plants","category-yellow-arizona-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}