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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue-eyed grass and its relation, yellow-eyed grass, are in flower these days and have been for a while. In many instances, they have begun to form seeds. Friday, 21 February 2025.

Blue-eyed grass was chosen by the public in a March Madness-style bracket competition where it beat out seven other native flowers that met a long list of criteria established by the San Diego ...