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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...