looking for Buffalo / Vanilla grass

Buffalo grass? As in the native Texas grass? Never thought to taste it!

Dustin the grass I’m looking for is European it is very similar to sweetgrass but not native to NA . so I’m not sure if the grass in TX is sweetgrass maybe or was it the European plant introduced.
Indigenous peoples used sweetgrass in tea form a lot for medicine .I think it is like the green tea of NA as it is a great cleansing tea but also used for coughs & asthma either as a steam or a tea . I find most people only know it now as a smudge .We try and re-intro our sacred medicines to people and sweetgrass is one of them .
When searching for buffalo/vanilla grass all that keeps coming up is the Kusmi tea. Which it is a good tea but I certainly could not afford to buy their tea to make my own large amounts of tea for others .Kusmi is good but so expensive .
If You are able to determine if the TX grass is indeed the same as the European do You have access to it ? I would be willing to purchase or trade if You like .
Thank You so much for responding like I said I have just had no luck or leads what so ever in finding a source .

From a quick search I found two different species that might fit your description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierochloe_odorata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthoxanthum_odoratum

Dustin it is a different grass now when I see the latin name . I’ve a feeling wherever Buffalo roamed locals must’ve named the grass after the animal lol .

Yes AB it is the second You listed .I know what it is I just cannot find it in cultivated dried form anywhere .We pick sweetgrass every summer for our teas & medicines it is sacred here .The other is the European variety and I only have it myself started from seed but like I said my patch is not established enough to harvest for tea use yet .
here is the seed from Richters
http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X6600&show=&prodclass=F026&cart_id=7421176.14882

maybe if I do a search under the latin name something will come up . in a way at least I now know once my patch has grown there is a need for someone to supply .

No idea if this is what you are looking for or not, but there are two blends on the Kusmi site that include buffalo grass…..
http://us.kusmitea.com/our-teas/russian-tea/green-zubrovka.html?p=5
http://us.kusmitea.com/our-teas/russian-tea/zubrovka.html?p=6

Yes that is the tea Kusmi sells that contains Vanilla grass .I make & sell my own tea blends so I’m looking for a source that just sells the grass in bulk form .While I can buy a small container of the Kusmi as a treat for myself I could not afford to purchase & re-sell. Plus it is blended with other ingredients it is not the pure grass on its own .

This is a real stumper, everywhere I look that usually has ANYTHING you imagine in terms of herbs and spices and dried plants for flavor is coming up short (they’ve got dried sweetgrass at Mountain Rose Herbs and an encyclopedia entry for the kind you want, but don’t actually sell it). Makes me wonder if maybe if you contacted certain shops that don’t carry it but carry nearly everything else—Penzey’s, The Spice House, Kalustyan’s, Mountain Rose, Bulkfoods, OliveNation, etc.—they might at least have leads?