There’s probably no truly “wild” sweetgrass populations in the world, because all of the populations of the North American and European sweetgrass may have been “cultivated” and selected for the length of their leaves over the last 10,000+ years of human/sweetgrass interactions. Of course there are wild stands still growing in the wild, but when you take a careful look at those plants, they might be remnants of a “garden” within a Native American village site, still growing where they were originally planted hundreds or thousands of years ago. The plants have been selected by humans to be cut at least twice a year, otherwise the unusually long leaves can smother the plant. A similar form of human selection, to make a particular part of a plant grow unusually long, has been done by the human’s selection of the Saffron crocus, whose stamens are harvested for the spice “saffron” and the stamens are now so abnormally long, they hang outside of the petals and no longer function as stamens a