Sisyrinchium californicum - Yellow-eyed grass

Yellow-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium californicum) is a small, iris-leaved perennial of California coast-range wetlands and coastal sage scrub, forming clumps about 8 inches tall with yellow flowers from May to June. It grows 0.2-0.8 m tall and about 0.2 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Moist soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹
• Evergreen¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.2-0.8
Diameter (m)	0.2

Footnotes

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

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