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Sisyrinchium micranthum
Also called Fairy Stars, Annual Blue-eyed-grass, Bermuda Pigroot, Lily Rush, Scourweed, Striped Rushleaf, Yellow Rush Lily
Sisyrinchium micranthum, commonly known as annual blue-eyed grass, blue pigroot, fairy stars, and striped rush-leaf, is a wildflower. It is a grass-like species in the iris family, Iridaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and South America and widely naturalized elsewhere. The flowers are between 10 and 20 mm in diameter. Often the flowers are white with blue to purple centers, but may bloom in other colors such as yellow, pink, or violet. These are followed by rounded 3 to 8 mm brown capsules that enclose the dark brown seeds.
In much of its range, especially the southeastern United States, this species was known by the synonym Sisyrinchium rosulatum. This name is still often seen in older descriptions that have not yet been updated.
White blue-eyed grass · Sisyrinchium albilapidense · Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass · Eastern blue-eyed grass · Western blue-eyed grass · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sisyrinchium micranthum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
