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Sisyrinchium bermudiana
Also called Bermudiana, Bermuda Blue Eyed Grass
Bermudiana is a small perennial grass-like iris from Bermuda, Bermuda's national flower, with blue-purple flowers in spring. It grows best in open, sunny sites with well-drained soil, and it self-seeds readily.
Sisyrinchium bermudiana, known as Bermudiana or, along with other members of the genus, as blue-eyed grass, is a flower of the genus Sisyrinchium (of the Iris family) that is native to the Atlantic archipelago, and British Overseas Territory, of Bermuda and the island of Ireland. The plant appears and blooms in the spring. It is used as a national flower by Bermudians, and appears in art, jewellery, banknotes and elsewhere.
Its distribution, in the Atlantic archipelago, Bermuda and Ireland, has led to the suggestion that it was introduced to Ireland, rather than being endemic. There are no records of it in Ireland before 1845.
White blue-eyed grass · Sisyrinchium albilapidense · Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass · Eastern blue-eyed grass · Western blue-eyed grass · Golden blue-eyed grass · Prairie blue-eyed grass · Stiff blue-eyed grass · Wishbone blue-eyed grass · Elmer's blue-eyed grass · Funeral Mountain blue-eyed grass · Greenland blueeyed grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sisyrinchium bermudiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
