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Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue Eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium bellum does quite well in forgotten nooks and crannies. Blue Eyed Grass can take a little overspray but not a regularly irrigated patch. Sisyrinchium bellum typically grows to about 6-8" tall and will show off its blue flowers in the spring and sporadically through the rest of the year. The Blue Eyed Grass will often naturalize and can add whimsy or a natural touch to a landscape, showing up in cracks and on path margins. It seems that the odds that Sisyrinchium bellum will end up in a new place in the garden is higher than having the blue eyed grass stay where it was originally planted.

Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue Eyed Grass

Purple-blue flowers of Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue Eyed Grass. High resolution photos are part of our garden image collection.

Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue Eyed Grass

Purple-blue flowers of Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue Eyed Grass. High resolution photos are part of our garden image collection.

Plants that grow in the same part of the garden - from our Wildflower List
Clarkia unguiculata
Collinsia heterophylla
Collinsia tinctoria
Dodecatheon clevelandii
Erysimum capitatum
Heuchera maxima
Paeonia californica
Pholistoma auritum
Salvia spathacea
Silene laciniata
Sisyrinchium bellum