Sweetflag
Acorus americanus
Sweetflag is an iris-like marginal aquatic with aromatic sword leaves and a finger-like greenish flower spike, spreading along pond and stream edges in shallow water.
- Family
- Acoraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3.9–3.9 ft
- Spacing
- 1.5–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing, rain garden
- Native states
- AK, CT, DC, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, VT, WA, WI