Narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass
Scientific classification
Genus:	Sisyrinchium
Species:	angustifolium
Synonyms
List Bermudiana angustifolia (Mill.) Kuntze Bermudiana graminea (Lam.) Nieuwl. 1913 not Gaertn. 1788 Bermudiana graminea Gaertn. 1788 not (Lam.) Nieuwl. 1913 Bermudiana graminifolia Medik. Bermudiana homomalla (Klatt) Kuntze Bermudiana iridifolia Medik. Ferraria pulchella Salisb. Ferraria violacea Salisb. Marica mucronata Ker Gawl. Sisyrinchium acuminatum Herb. Sisyrinchium anceps Cav. Sisyrinchium carolinianum E.P.Bicknell Sisyrinchium cultrifolium Noronha Sisyrinchium excisum Godr. Sisyrinchium gramineum Lam. Sisyrinchium graminoides E.P.Bicknell Sisyrinchium hibernicum Á.Löve & D.Löve Sisyrinchium homomallum Klatt Sisyrinchium iridioides Curtis Sisyrinchium membranaceum E.P.Bicknell Sisyrinchium nuttallii Sweet Sisyrinchium ramosum Herb.

Sisyrinchium angustifolium, commonly known as narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass, is a herbaceous perennial growing from rhizomes, native to moist meadow and open woodland. It is the most common blue-eyed grass of the eastern United States, and is also cultivated as an ornamental.

Range: Eastern Canada and US, west to Texas and Minnesota, in meadows, low woods, and shorelines.

Height: 15–50 cm (6–20 in). Stem: broadly winged, 2–4 mm (1⁄16–3⁄16 in) wide, usually branched. Leaves: 2–6 mm (1⁄16–1⁄4 in) wide. Tepals: 6, blue, 7–10 mm (1⁄4–3⁄8 in), each tipped with a sharp point, veined, and darkening toward central yellow patch.

Gallery

• 

  flowers, stem, and leaves

• 

  many, in grass

• 

  bud before flowering and immature fruits

• 

  flower, close

Images for kids

• 

  Flowers and fruits