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Forb
Perennial

Native

Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare (distribution poorly known; additional distribution records expected)

Look for it in marshes, wet meadows, other wet areas, limey seeps, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
Inflorescence a spadix

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Acorales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Acorus americanus FAMILY Acoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acorus americanus FAMILY Acoraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-01-001?:
Acorus calamus FAMILY Araceae

COMMON NAME:
Sweetflag, American Calamus

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image of Acorus americanus, Sweetflag, American Calamus

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_acca10_001_lvd

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir