Narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Genus: Sisyrinchium
Species:
S. angustifolium
Binomial name
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Bermudiana angustifolia (Mill.) Kuntze
    • Bermudiana graminea (Lam.) Nieuwl. 1913 not Gaertn. 1788
    • Bermudiana graminea Gaertn. 1788 not (Lam.) Nieuwl. 1913
    • Bermudiana graminifolia Medik.
    • Bermudiana homomalla (Klatt) Kuntze
    • Bermudiana iridifolia Medik.
    • Ferraria pulchella Salisb.
    • Ferraria violacea Salisb.
    • Marica mucronata Ker Gawl.
    • Sisyrinchium acuminatum Herb.
    • Sisyrinchium anceps Cav.
    • Sisyrinchium carolinianum E.P.Bicknell
    • Sisyrinchium cultrifolium Noronha
    • Sisyrinchium excisum Godr.
    • Sisyrinchium gramineum Lam.
    • Sisyrinchium graminoides E.P.Bicknell
    • Sisyrinchium hibernicum Á.Löve & D.Löve
    • Sisyrinchium homomallum Klatt
    • Sisyrinchium iridioides Curtis
    • Sisyrinchium membranaceum E.P.Bicknell
    • Sisyrinchium nuttallii Sweet
    • Sisyrinchium ramosum Herb.

Sisyrinchium angustifolium, commonly known as narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass,[2] is a herbaceous perennial growing from rhizomes, native to moist meadow and open woodland. It is the most common blue-eyed grass of the eastern United States, and is also cultivated as an ornamental.

Range: Eastern Canada and US, west to Texas and Minnesota, in meadows, low woods, and shorelines.

Height: 15–50 cm (6–20 in). Stem: broadly winged, 2–4 mm (1⁄16–3⁄16 in) wide, usually branched. Leaves: 2–6 mm (1⁄16–1⁄4 in) wide. Tepals: 6, blue,[3] 7–10 mm (1⁄4–3⁄8 in), each tipped with a sharp point, veined, and darkening toward central yellow patch.

References

  1. ↑ "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 8 July 2014 – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  2. ↑ "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) [1992]. Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 72. ISBN 0-87842-280-3. OCLC 25708726.

Further reading

  • Cholewa, Anita F.; Henderson, Douglass M. (2002). "Sisyrinchium angustifolium". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 26. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • Rhoads, Ann F.; Block, Timothy A. (2007). The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual. Anna Anisko (Illustrator) (2nd ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4003-0.
  • Gleason, Henry A.; Cronquist, Arthur (1991). Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (2nd ed.). The New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN 0-89327-365-1.
  • Thierer, John W.; Niering, William A.; Olmstead, Nancy C. (2001). National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region (Revised ed.). Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40232-2.


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