It narrowly beat out the bush sunflower in a March Madness-style bracket competition — part of an effort to encourage gardeners to cultivate native plants.

Coinciding with the NCAA basketball tournaments, the SDBA created a bracket-style tournament to choose between eight native plants — black sage, bladderpod, blue elderberry, blue-eyed grass ...

On Tuesday, the City Council voted to replace the non-native carnation with the Blue ... Blue-eyed Grass grows in California and Oregon and west of the Sierra Nevada, with its range extending ...

“In 1908, an ethnographer recorded Luiseño Native Americans taking the roots of Blue-eyed Grass as a purgative. Delfina Cuero, a Kumeyaay ethnobotanist and author, wrote in her book that the ...

Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is also known as ‘pasto de ojitos azules’ in Spanish and kuushaaw in the Kumeyaay language, and is one of only two Irises native to San Diego. NEWPORT BEA ...

Coinciding with the NCAA basketball tournaments, the SDBA created a bracket-style tournament to choose between eight native plants — black sage, bladderpod, blue elderberry, blue-eyed ... range ...

The city of San Diego could soon have a new official flower if the city council agrees Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with the native blue-eyed grass. The campaign to change San Diego ...

Blue-eyed grass is seen in an undated image. San Diego has a new official flower, following the City Council's unanimous vote today to replace the non-native carnation with the native western blue ...

The city of San Diego could soon have a new official flower if the City Council Tuesday agrees to replace the non-native carnation with the native Blue-eyed Grass. The campaign to change San Diego ...

Coinciding with the NCAA basketball tournaments, the SDBA created a bracket-style tournament to choose between eight native plants -- black sage, bladderpod, blue elderberry, blue-eyed grass ...