| Narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Secure (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Sisyrinchium |
| Species: | S. angustifolium |
| Binomial name | |
| Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill., 1768 | |
| Synonyms | |
List
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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
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Many in a hedge
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Flowers, stem, and leaves
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Bud before flowering and immature fruits
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flower, close
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Mature fruits, having released the seeds
References
- NatureServe (2024). "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- "Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) . Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 72. ISBN 0-87842-280-3. OCLC 25708726.
Further reading
- Cholewa, Anita F.; Henderson, Douglass M. (2002). "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 26. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- Rhoads, Ann F.; Block, Timothy A. (2007). The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual. Anna Anisko (Illustrator) (2nd ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4003-0.
- Gleason, Henry A.; Cronquist, Arthur (1991). Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (2nd ed.). The New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN 0-89327-365-1.
- Thierer, John W.; Niering, William A.; Olmstead, Nancy C. (2001). National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region (Revised ed.). Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40232-2.
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| Sisyrinchium angustifolium |
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