Wildflowers: Blue-eyed grass
One of my favorite wildflowers in the fields around our cabin is Blue-eyed grass – Sisyrinchium montanum Greene.
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June, 2017
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Blue-eyed grass is not a grass at all, but a member of the iris family. It inhabits moist, open ground, fields and meadows, and blooms in late spring and summer. The plant is low and slender, with a deep blue flower and a bright yellow center, borne at the top of a straight, usually unbranched, stem. The stem is two-edged, flattened on the margins. The flowers are borne in the axil of a sharp, upheld bract called a spathe. In French, the plant is called Bermudienne. Montanum means ‘of the mountains’.
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June, 2017
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Blue-eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium montanum Greene
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I walk in grass
but it isn’t grass-
Sisyrinchium
it winks at me
with azure eyes
and I blink brown at them
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Blue-eyed Grass
stands straight and still
staunch Bermudienne
simple maid
with a watchful eye
and a sword above her head
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June, 2016
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Copyright Jane Tims 2017
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An enriching and informative post. Maybe one day, I’ll get the chance to see it for myself.
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Lone Grey Squirrel
July 8, 2017 at 1:02 pm
I imagine you have many very different wildflowers I have never seen!
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jane tims
July 8, 2017 at 4:03 pm
Very pretty! I love them, too, now that I’ve finally seen one around here on a walk! 🙂
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Barbara Rodgers
July 7, 2017 at 10:00 am
Blue flowers are actually less common in wildflowers and when I see them (chicory, iris, violets) I love them! Jane
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jane tims
July 7, 2017 at 1:53 pm