Sweetflag

Sweetflag

Sweetflag Acorus calamus has long stiff upright leaves like an iris and the flowering stem is flattened so that it looks much like one of the leaves. A naked spadix bearing the flowers sticks out like a yellow-green finger and a long leaf-like extension of the flowering stem continues above it. Sweetflag grows in marshes and its rootstock has a sweet smell. [CH] {NW}