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Fountaingrass
Every rated Pennisetum record is keep-away — 1 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 11 evidence rows from 6 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Fountaingrass Pennisetum spp. Keep away Limited evidence 3 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› 2 species
- Hierba penacho Awaiting evidence Pennisetum setaceum
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Fountain grass Awaiting evidence Pennisetum alopecuroides
About fountaingrass
Corpus context. Pennisetum is the directory's #338 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 11 evidence rows from 6 cited sources, recorded as grass, perennial , hardy across USDA zones 5–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Pennisetum: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.
The answer for fountaingrass is no. Here is what to plant instead.
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