Sisyrinchium idahoense

Idaho blue-eyed-grass

Family: Iridaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Idaho blue-eyed-grass is a California native perennial found in montane and alpine habitats at elevations up to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this delicate plant produces blue to blue-violet flowers with yellow bases, each 8 to 17 millimeters long with rounded or deeply notched tips. Growing in tufted clumps less than 45 centimeters tall, the stems are green to glaucous with minimal leaf-bearing nodes. Its slender leaves emerge in dense clusters, forming a grass-like appearance with thin, upright growth. The translucent bracts surrounding the flower clusters add an ethereal quality to this elegant grassland species.

California counties: Nevada, Mariposa, Tulare, Kern, Siskiyou, San Bernardino, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Trinity, Mono, Los Angeles, Ventura, Tuolumne, Plumas, Placer, Lassen, Butte, Shasta, Del Norte, Riverside, Sierra, Alpine

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.