blue-eyed grass, common
| COMMON NAME: | Blue-eyed grass, common | |
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| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | Sisyrinchium rosulatum | |
| FAMILY: | Iridaceae | |
| LIFECYCLE: | Annual | |
| FEATURES: | Annual grass-like plant in the iris (Iridaceae) family. Plant develops from a central axis forming a rosette. Leaves compressed and glabrous. Flowers are solitary with six petal, three anthers surrounding a single pistil. Flowers can be blue, white, or yellow– but all have a darkened ring inside the flower petals. Seed pod are round, smooth, approximately 0.5 cm in diameter. |
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| DESCRIPTION: | A winter annual weed in turfgrass. Common grass-like iris plant of managed turf along the coastal plain region. Primarily on sandy textured soils in turfgrass. |
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