Plant: Sweetflag Grass / Acorus
Acorus gramineus
Size: 1 gal
Light
Bloom
More about this plant
Japanese sweetflag is a clump-forming, grass-like plant grown for its long, narrow leaves. It grows up to 1 foot tall and spreads by rhizomes into a ground cover, thriving in very wet or even partly submerged soil in full sun to part shade, with some afternoon shade best in hot summers. Plant 8 to 12 inches apart along streams, ponds and wet spots, as edging, or in containers kept moist; dry soil can scorch the leaves.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
Plant description
Japanese sweetflag is a clump-forming, grass-like plant grown for its long, narrow leaves. It grows up to 1 foot tall and spreads by rhizomes into a ground cover, thriving in very wet or even partly submerged soil in full sun to part shade, with some afternoon shade best in hot summers. Plant 8 to 12 inches apart along streams, ponds and wet spots, as edging, or in containers kept moist; dry soil can scorch the leaves.
- Flowers
- Insignificant gold-green flowers on a spike up to 4 inches long, May to June.
- Foliage
- Narrow, linear, glossy leaves over 6 inches long that smell sweet when crushed.
- Fruit
- Small red fleshy berries.
- Light
- Morning Sun
- Native range
- Japan, Korea and eastern Asia
