Native Focus: Idaho Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium idahoense. One of the most perplexing groups of plants, with many, often intergrading, variants named as species. A perennial, blooming from April to September in moist places (at least early in the season), generally in the open, from lowlands well into the mountains. This plant boasts several delicate, blue or deep blue-violet flowers in 2 broad bracts top a flat stem, generally only 1 flower at a time in bloom; stems taller than the clusters of narrow, sword-shaped leaves near base.
Idaho Blue-Eyed Grass is available for purchase from the CSR Nursery.
For a great informational online native plant source, visit Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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I live in riverview new brunswick canada…have lived here for 23 years….in a field between me and my neighbor are these flowers… the ground is not moist at all….very interesting they just popped up this year…….