Sweetgrass
Name
Sweetgrass
Scientific name
Hierochloe odorata
Type
herbarium sheet
Creator
Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
Spatial Coverage
Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario
Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
1933-07-07
Description
Pressed specimen of sweet grass, obtained from Levi Sturgeon. From field beside Dave Osahgee's house. Said by Sturgeon to have been planted there by his father. He says that sweet grass can easily be transplanted from roots. He recognized sweet grass by the glossy upper surface of the leaf, its low branching characteristics, and lack of joints in nodes. The sweet grass was growing among other plants. He says it does better with competition. Collected 7/7/33 (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 1).
Identifier
UMMAA 13968
Collector
Volney Jones
UM holding institution
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA
- Site pages
- Sturgeon Family