Blue-eyed grass, a native gem
It’s California Native Plant Week and I’m profiling a different California native each day that is on my particular wish list. Today is a favorite, Blue-eyed grass.
- Western Blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium bellum
“Out of the clover & blue-eyed grass
He turned them into the river-lane;
One after another he let them pass,
Then fastened the meadow-bars again.”Driving Home the Cows
by Kate Putnam Osgood,
b. 1860
Blue Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum is a primitive iris
Blue-eyed grass or Western blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium bellum, is native to California and other areas west of the Sierra Nevada. A perennial meadow wildflower related to the iris family, it hides among the other grasses until the clear blue flowers appear in April or May.…