Hierochloe
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Hierochloe is a genus of grasses
known generally as sweetgrass. These are perennial rhizomatous
grasses found in temperate regions in the Northern Hemisphere
. These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle
inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.
Hierochloe is also regarded as a section of the genus Anthoxanthum
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Selected species:
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
known generally as sweetgrass. These are perennial rhizomatous
Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes...
grasses found in temperate regions in the Northern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
. These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle
Panicle
A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....
inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.
Hierochloe is also regarded as a section of the genus Anthoxanthum
Anthoxanthum
Anthoxanthum, the vernal grasses or vernalgrasses, is a large genus of true grass with a cosmopolitan distribution.A. odoratum is a common species of acidic grassland and bogs in northern Europe....
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Selected species:
- Hierochloe alpina - alpine sweetgrass
- Hierochloe fraseri
- Hierochloe hirta - northern sweetgrass
- Hierochloe magellanica
- Hierochloe occidentalisHierochloe occidentalisHierochloe occidentalis is a species of grass known by the common name California sweetgrass. It is a close relative of the more widely known sweet grass. It is native to the west coast of the United States from Washington to California, where it grows in the coniferous forests of the coastal...
- California sweetgrass - Hierochloe odorata - sweetgrass, holy grass, vanilla grass
- Hierochloe pauciflora - arctic sweetgrass
- Hierochloe rariflora
- Hierochloe recurvata
- Hierochloe redolens
- Hierochloe sibirica
- Hierochloe stepporum
- Hierochloe submutica