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Browse the Ontario Weeds Gallery: | (photo by Nancy J. Turner) This image is not<\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. Sweetgrass was used to make a hair wash and hair tonic, not only by the Siksika, but by the Nlaka’pamux (Thompson) of Native Americans, including Kiowa, Cheyenne, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Menominee, American Haudenosaunee and Quinault, use sweetgrass in religious ceremonies and purification in similar ways to their Canadian neighbours and relatives. Your message has been sent. Alpine sweetgrass (Hierochloë alpina) grows near sea level in the Arctic, and in meado… This image is not<\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. It is quite aggressive as it spreads by rhizomes and so it needs to be planted where it has room to grow. If you Synonymy: Until recently, sweetgrass was known as Hierochloë odorata (L.) P. … cannot enable JavaScript in your browser and would like to know the last modified The flowers are small and greenish, and grow in branching clusters at the top of slender, upright stalks. Native Americans use sweet grass in ornamental baskets and crafts, as well as, braided and burned in religious ceremonies to evoke good powers.

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