Sweetgrass Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Sweetgrass (Anthoxanthum nitens, long known as Hierochloe odorata) is a perennial grass of the grass family, Poaceae, native to the cool northern regions of North America and Eurasia, where it grows in wet meadows, marsh edges and lake shores. It spreads by creeping rhizomes into loose stands 30 to 60 cm tall, with glossy, flat leaves that are shiny on the underside and open, golden-brown panicles in early summer. The leaves smell strongly of vanilla from coumarin, especially when dried, and are braided by many Indigenous nations for ceremony and basketry. We extract the dried braid.