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Fig. 83. Savastana odorata (L.) Scribn. (Hierochloe borealis 

 R. & S.). Vanilla-grass. — A slender, sweet-scented, stoloniferous 

 perennial 3 to 6 dm. high, with short culm-leaves and brownish, 

 open panicles. The flat leaves of the sterile shoots are 1 to 3 dm. 

 long. — Newfoundland and New Brunswick to southern New York, 

 west to Minnesota and Iowa ; in the Rockies from British America 

 south to Arizona and Mexico; Alaska southward in the mountains 

 to Oregon. [Cooler temperate regions and high mountains of 

 both hemispheres.] April- August. 



