Reviewed by Julie Thompson-AdolfReviewed by Julie Thompson-Adolf Despite its name and appearance, blue-eyed grass is not a true grass. It is a wildflower with a clump-forming growth habit, narrow ...

Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium spp. While I have been swapping out non-natives for natives in my garden for years, blue-eyed grass was not on my radar until a few years ago. I found it in my backyard.

I love blue-eyed grass, and I got my own plant by almost literally stumbling across it. I found it growing in the path around my garden beds and I would have pulled it up as a grass weed had I not ...

Sometimes botany gives you a "Jeopardy" moment about a particular plant's origins. In the case of sisyrinchium, the category would be "plants that could be a grass or an iris for $200." This ...

Plant: Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium sp. and Olsynium sp.) Why it’s choice: Plant names can be confusing, whether they are common names or scientific names, and blue-eyed grass may be in the ...

They’re not grasses at all, but members of the iris family, along with such showy relatives as gladioli, crocuses, and of course, irises. The sepals in a blue-eyed grass flower aren’t green ...

THE blue-eyed grass is a very rare native plant that otherwise occurs only in North America. It occurs in the west of the country on stony lakeshores and hardly at all elsewhere. It has not been ...

Stems can extend up to 24 inches — but are usually shorter — and end in a small bluish-purplish bloom. “Blue-eyed Grass works great at the edge of landscaped areas, is a fire-resistant plant ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) — San Diego has a new official flower, following the City Council's unanimous vote Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with the native western blue-eyed grass.