Plant: Sweetflag Grass / Acorus - Variegated
Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'
Size: 1 gal
Light
Bloom
More about this plant
Variegated Japanese sweetflag forms grass-like clumps of narrow leaves striped white and green, up to 1 foot tall, spreading slowly by rhizomes. It grows in very wet or even partly submerged soil in full sun to part shade, with some afternoon shade best in hot summers. Use it along streams and ponds, in 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
Variegated Japanese sweetflag forms grass-like clumps of narrow leaves striped white and green, up to 1 foot tall, spreading slowly by rhizomes. It grows in very wet or even partly submerged soil in full sun to part shade, with some afternoon shade best in hot summers. Use it along streams and ponds, in 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.
- Native range
- Japan, Korea and eastern Asia
