Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) Login         


        Description
  • Height 1 - 2 ft.
  • EW Bloom Mar - May
  • This is not a grass but an iris.
  • At the top of each stem are violet flowers with darker purple lines leading to a yellow center.
  • It's common in open, usually moist areas.
  • CA native. Endemic to the California Floristic Province.
  • AKA Western Blue Eyed Grass
  • Iris Family (Iridaceae)



Beautiful 1/2" wide flowers have blue to violet petals and a golden yellow center to guide pollinators in.



Leaves are grass-like, narrow with parallel veins.



The ovary is below the flower and, if pollinated, develops into a capsule-like fruit.

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You can see where blue-eyed grass gets its name - it looks like a grass, but with blue flowers on top. It does well in many environments but is esp ...

Blue-eyed grass grows from rhizomes (branches that run just below the ground), forming tightly-packed colonies. It is a [[perennial]] - growing f ...

[[Basal]] leaves are narrow and overlapping, outer leaves sheathing inner ones. They make a fan-like spray that surrounds the central stem. Smalle ...

Blue-eyed grass has six "petals" in two whorls of 3. The outer 3 are [[sepals]] and the inner 3 are [[petals]]. Since they're similar in appea ...

Pollinators are invited with visual clues and sugar treats. Dark veins run the length of the [[tepals]] pointing to a yellow center. Glistening ...