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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">USDA NRCS Brooksville Plant Materials Center</span><br>
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is a clump-forming perennial grass that is native to the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The leaves of this grass are used by the Gullah community, descendants of enslaved Africans in the South Carolina coastal area, as the base material for their coiled
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">Sweetgrass (a.k.a. gulfhairawn muhly,
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"><i style="line-height:normal">Muhlenbergia filipes</i></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">) is a clump-forming
perennial grass that is native to the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts.</span><span style="color:#201F1E; background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">It has narrow, rolled leaves that can grow to almost 4-feet tall.</span><span style="color:#201F1E; background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">The purplish flowers are held in an open, diffuse panicle-type seedhead.</span><span style="color:#201F1E; background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">The common name "sweetgrass" is derived from the fresh, corn silk fragrance of the leaves or "threads".</span><span style="color:#201F1E; background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">Sweetgrass is more than just another native grass in the coastal conservation toolkit, it is quite literally woven into cultural tradition of a segment of
African American history.</span><span style="color:#201F1E; background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background:white; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">Full article: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/plantmaterials/home/?cid=NRCSEPRD1922851</span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span></p>
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