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.

“Blue-eyed Grass works great at the edge of landscaped areas, is a fire-resistant plant, and uses a corm to store resources underground,” a city document reads. “In 1908, an ethnographer ...

with blue-eyed grass named the winner in mid-April. With the council’s approval, the plant is now the city’s official flower, replacing the carnation, which was adopted by the city council in ...

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 ...

The blue-eyed grass is San Diego's new official flower. Why it matters: Part of the iris family and native to the area, this plant was selected through the San Diego Bird Alliance's NCAA bracket ...

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 ...

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 ...