Seasonal Wild Flowers

Blue-eyed-grass

Sisyrinchium bermudiana

Iridaceae

May to July

It is patchily and thinly scattered throughout the country

See the BSBI distribution map for Blue-eyed-grass

Although native in Western Ireland, it is a naturalised

escape in the UK.

It grows in wet grassland and ditches and on the shores

of lakes.

Blue-eyed-grass is a rhizotomatous, grass-like perennial

herb, growing up to 60cm.

Flowers are up to 2cm across with 6 blue petals and a

yellow centre.

Stamens have filaments fused into a tube with yellow/

orange anthers.

Stems (scapes) are flattened and narrowly winged.

Flowers open singly at the tips of the branches.

The fruit is a capsule.

Leaves are linear and iris-like.

Blue-eyed-grass flowers, stems and leaves

Side view of flower and scape

Close-up of corolla

Capsule

Leaves