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Jeweled blue-eyed grass

Sisyrinchium xerophyllum

Jeweled blue-eyed grass
Photo: Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0
Family
Iridaceae (Iris family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Native range
SE. U.S.A.
Climate
subtropical

About

Sisyrinchium xerophyllum, commonly called jeweled blue-eyed grass or scrub blue-eyed grass, is a threatened species of perennial herb endemic to the U.S. southeast coastal plain where it is primarily found in Florida with some possible scattered populations in Georgia and North Carolina.

Where it grows

It occurs in the exposed, sandy soils of the fire-dependent habitats of sandhill and scrub.

Other Sisyrinchium plants

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 xerophyllum 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.

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