Grassy-Leaved Sweet Flag

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Other Names: Sweet Flag Grass

Description:

Though it is commonly known as sweet flag, this is actually a grass, not an iris; iris-like foliage is fragrant and great for moist or boggy areas; it is gold and green-striped but appears mostly gold; doesn't like to dry out or the tips will burn

Ornamental Features:

Grassy-Leaved Sweet Flag's attractive fragrant grassy leaves remain gold in colour with prominent green stripes throughout the season. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Grassy-Leaved Sweet Flag is a dense herbaceous ornamental grass with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance ornamental grass, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Grassy-Leaved Sweet Flag is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Bog Gardens
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
• Groundcover
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Grassy-Leaved Sweet Flag will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This ornamental grass does best in full sun to partial shade. It is quite adaptable, prefering to grow in average to wet conditions, and will even tolerate some standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.