Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-633.26.__
Hierochloe odorata
Name: Hierochloe means "holy grass" and odorata means "fragrant".
Synonym: Anthoxanthum nitens.
English: Sweet grass; Manna grass; Mary’s grass; Vanilla grass; Holy grass; Bison grass; Buffalo grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) in Australia.
Use: Polish vodka producers, Żubrówka, Wisent; aromatic
Region: northern Eurasia and North America.
Use: herbal medicine
Botany: hardy perennial, cold resitant, to 20 cm high; leaves do not have rigid stems, grow outward horizontally, base broad and white, purple-red, without hairs, underside shiny, without hairs; purple colored indicates a phosphorus-deficient soil.
Content: phytol and coumarin, repel mosquitoes.
