HIEROCHLOA odorata

This aromatic cool season grass is considered sacred and used by Native Americans in herbal medicine and beverages or burned as incense braids. It has a sweet delicate vanilla smell. Native to Ohio.

Product Description

HIEROCHLOA odorata- Sweetgrass

This aromatic cool season grass is considered sacred and used by Native Americans in herbal medicine and beverages or burned as incense braids. It has a sweet delicate vanilla smell. Flowers are followed by bronze-colored seeds on spikelets. It is an aggressive, rhizomatous grass useful in mass native plantings, especially wetlands and prairie plantings. Native to Ohio.

Sun: Full Sun

Soil: Moist, Well-Drained

Size: Height 1-2ft.

Zone: 3-8

Flower: Yellow

Bloom Time: June

Attributes: Native, Wet Soils, Fragrant, Attractive Foliage, Attracts Birds.