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Sisyrinchium ostenianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is distributed in northern Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, where it grows in grasslands with sandy soils or on rocky outcrops, and sometimes on roadsides.
Sisyrinchium ostenianum has been recorded from the province of Corrientes in Argentina; from several departments of Uruguay (Canelones, Cerro Largo, Durazno, Montevideo, San José and Tacuarembó); and from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It has been recorded from grasslands with sandy soils, from rocky outcrops, and sometimes from roadsides, at elevations of 32–431 m. These sites are within the Low Altitude Temperate Grasslands, Temperate Shrubland and Subtropical/Temperate Coastal Scrub bioregions.
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 ostenianum 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.
