Sisyrinchium angustifolium |
Sisyrinchium pallidum |
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Bermudienne à feuilles étroites, blue-eyed grass, narrow-leaf blue-eyed-grass, stout blue-eyed grass |
pale blue-eyed grass |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, cespitose, dark olive green to bronze or blackish when dry, to 4.5 dm, not glaucous. | Herbs, perennial, cespitose, green to olive when dry, to 3 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes scarcely discernable. Stems simple, 1–2 mm wide, glabrous, margins entire, similar in color and texture to stem body. |
Stems | branched, with 1–2 nodes, 2.3–5 mm wide, glabrous, margins often minutely denticulate especially basally, similar in color and texture to stem body; first internode 10–30 cm, usually longer than leaves; distalmost node with 1–3 branches. |
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Leaf | blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. |
blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. |
Inflorescences | borne singly; spathes usually green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels denticulate to entire; outer 18–38 mm, 2–9.5 mm longer than inner, usually tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 4–6 mm; inner with keel evenly curved or straight, hyaline margins 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex acuminate to acute, ending 0.2–0.7 mm proximal to green apex. |
borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire; outer 28–38 mm, 7–26 mm longer than inner, basally connate 2.6–4.3 mm, often very slightly constricted proximal to apex; inner with keels evenly curved, hyaline margins 0.1–0.5 mm wide, apex usually acute, ending 0–1.5 mm proximal to green apex. |
Flowers | tepals pale blue to violet, occasionally white, bases yellow; outer tepals 7.7–12.5 mm, apex rounded or emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. |
tepals pale blue, bases yellow; outer tepals 7.6–10 mm, apex slightly emarginate or rounded, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. |
Capsules | dark brown or black, sometimes with purplish tinge, ± globose, 4–7 mm; pedicel spreading or ascending. |
beige to dark brown, globose, 3–5 mm; pedicel ascending. |
Seeds | globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 0.5–1.2 mm, rugulose. |
globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 0.8–1.2 mm, granular or somewhat rugulose. |
2n | = 96. |
= 64. |
Sisyrinchium angustifolium |
Sisyrinchium pallidum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering mid summer. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, stream banks, swamp edges, sandy meadows, moist open woods | Poorly drained, montane meadows |
Elevation | 0–800 m (0–2600 ft) | 2600–3000 m (8500–9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; LB; NS; ON; QC
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CO; WY
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Discussion | Sisyrinchium membranaceum E. P. Bicknell probably belongs here; Bicknell indicated that its relationship was “with S. graminoides” and his description falls within that of S. angustifolium, except for slightly shorter spathe bracts. In previous floras, Sisyrinchium angustifolium often has been confused with S. montanum, especially when S. graminoides was segregated. Branching seems to be the primary point of confusion. The original descriptions of S. angustifolium and S. graminoides clearly indicated branching while that of S. montanum indicates it to be single-stemmed. There is some slight similarity between S. montanum var. crebrum and S. angustifolium with respect to spathe connation and dry color, and chromosome counts indicate that both have 2n = 96, but there is some indication that breeding barriers may exist (D. B. Ward 1959). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 361. | FNA vol. 26, p. 367. |
Parent taxa | Iridaceae > Sisyrinchium | Iridaceae > Sisyrinchium |
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Synonyms | S. graminoides | |
Name authority | Miller: Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Sisyrinchium no. 2. (1768) | Cholewa & Douglass M. Henderson: Brittonia 36: 361, fig. 7E–G. (1984) |
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