California Sweetgrass
Hierochloe occidentalis
California sweetgrass is a fragrant, vanilla-scented woodland grass of the Pacific states, spreading gently in moist shade. Culturally significant and pleasantly aromatic.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- January, February, March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- CA, OR, WA