Sisyrinchium angustifolium

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Narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Genus: Sisyrinchium
Species:
S. angustifolium
Binomial name
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Mill.
Synonyms[1]
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Sisyrinchium angustifolium, commonly known as narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass,[2] 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.

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  • flowers, stem, and leaves

  • many, in grass

  • bud before flowering and immature fruits

  • flower, close

References[]

  1. ^ "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 8 July 2014 – via The Plant List.
  2. ^ "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  • 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). 26. New York and Oxford – 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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