sweetgrass

noun

sweet·​grass ˈswēt-ˌgras 

: a slender fragrant perennial grass (Hierochloe odorata) that typically grows in moist soils and is used especially in basketry

Examples of sweetgrass in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That idea came alive on my favorite day of hiking, ascending through the Val di Chiana—a valley carpeted in red poppies, sunflowers, and sweetgrass—toward the 13th-century hermitage of Celle di San Francesco, where St. Francis is said to have written his last will and testament. —Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025

The ceremonial fire, circled by cedar boughs, opened to the east where guests entered to offer prayer by sprinkling tobacco, sage, white cedar and sweetgrass to be burned. —Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025

Grand Marais is also home to the storied North House Folk School, where visitors sign up for intensive multi-day workshops in timber framing, sweetgrass basketry, open-fire Viking cooking, and more. —Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 1 Aug. 2025

Tea offerings include strawberry basil, vanilla sweetgrass and sweet sage. —Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sweetgrass

• alas
• amass
• bromegrass
• bypass
• chagas
• crabgrass
• crevasse
• eelgrass
• eyeglass
• groundmass
• harass
• impasse