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
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Memorial audio tours include the option to hear narration in other languages, including Lakota, and a medicine wheel garden with sacred plants such as cedar and sweetgrass was added at Mount Rushmore in 2024.
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Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
While many artists in the Gullah Geechee tradition specialize in the painting of silhouettes, faces are central to Farris’s imagery, as are emblems of life in the Lowcountry, such as palmetto trees, blue herons, and sweetgrass.
—Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
Vibrant indigo paint drips down the canvas, from clouds, palm trees, and the sweetgrass basket atop the woman’s head.
—Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the quilters of Gee's Bend.
—Troy McMullen, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
While many artists in the Gullah Geechee tradition specialize in the painting of silhouettes, faces are central to Farris’s imagery, as are emblems of life in the Lowcountry, such as palmetto trees, blue herons, and sweetgrass.
—Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
Vibrant indigo paint drips down the canvas, from clouds, palm trees, and the sweetgrass basket atop the woman’s head.
—Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the quilters of Gee's Bend.
—Troy McMullen, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Sweetgrass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweetgrass. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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