Sweetflag
Other Common Names:
(Acorus americanus)
Native
Sweetflag leaves grow in clusters from horizontal underground stems. Simple leaves are bright green and up to six feet long.
Management Options
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Description
Sweetflag has horizontal stems that grow underground. The leaves are simple, bright green, sword shaped, and have a sweet scent when they are broken open. They grow two to six feet long and a half inch wide. Leaves have a midvein and two to six more parallel veins that are visible when leaves are held up to the light. Flowers are typically yellow green in color, look like a tightly packed spike about two inches long, and grow from the leaves.
Location
Sweetflag can be found across the northern half of the United States.
Propagation
rhizomes
Management Options
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