Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue-eyed grass

Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is a small, grass-leaved perennial of California grassy slopes and redwood forest understory, widely distributed from coastal bluffs to interior grasslands, with blue iris-like flowers from January to June. It grows 0.3-0.7 m tall and 0.1-0.5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Moist soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.3-0.7
Diameter (m)	0.1-0.5

Footnotes

1. Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue-Eyed Grass | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩