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Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun
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3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Annual, Ornamental Grasses and Sedges, Densely tufted perennial.
Flower
Inflorescence if a terminal, elongated raceme of spiklets resembling a bottlebrush that is reddish-purple in color. Spiklets are 1-3 flowered, awned, and awns are plumose basally., Lodicules absent. Anthers 3; 2.5-3.5 mm long; anther tip smooth. Styles connate below.
Benefits
Attracts
Pollinators
Songbirds
Taxonomy
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Cenchrus
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