Sweetgrass.
Oooh. I found lots of sweetgrass.
Day before day before yesterday, on a "let's see what we can find" tour, one of my students bent down to check 'that white flower'. Which was in fact a grass. And when I checked it out, that grass was a sweetgrass, Hierochloe sp.
Which I've seen a few times, but never in this abundance. Now I know where to look for it: it grew very close to water.
Heavenly scent, has sweetgrass. Very strong scent of vanilla.
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I've grown it in my garden, a few years ago, but the problem with growing grasses in your garden is, you pull them up as weeds, sooner or later.
USDA's plants database says
USDA's plants database says "nope".
If I were to decide to grow
If I were to decide to grow it again, I'd put it into a container. That way I'd be less likely to pull it up as a weed.
Ah. So my "pull it up as a
Ah. So my "pull it up as a weed" was actually, in a twisted way, the right thing to do? Thanks, heart woman!