Sweet Flag

Usually available: All year

Life cycle: Perennial
Height: 70cm - 1m
Position: Sun / part shade
Soil preference: Moist

This is how we pack and send your Herb Plants to all states except TAS & WA

You will receive
- 1 Sweet Flag Herb Plant in a 50 X 75mm tube - General growing instructions

All of our Herb Plants are grown organically with certified organic potting mixes and fertilizers

Botanical Name: Acorus calamus

Sweet Flag is indigenous to Europe, Asia, North America and India through to New Guinea.

Sweet Flag is a perennial reed – like plant with creeping rhizomes and strap-like leaves to 1m long. Small yellow/green flowers grow on a flower spike or spadix 6-8cm long.

Medicinally the aromatic, bitter rhizomes are used as a bitter tonic to treat indigestion, flatulence and to stimulate appetite.

Sweet Flag is an important herb in Ayurvedic medicine where it is used to strengthen the nervous system.

Growing Conditions

Sweet Flag prefers boggy areas in sun or part shade but will grow in well watered garden beds or pots.

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