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Pyle, Lynn

Sisyrinchium myrioflorum

Sisyrinchium myrioflorum E.L. Keith

Sandyland Blue-eyed Grass, Many-flowered Blue-eyed Grass

Iridaceae (Iris family)

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USDA Symbol: SIMY

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

"Perennial herbs caespitose, green to dark olive brown when dry, to 3.4 dm, glaucous. Stems branched, with 1–3 nodes (usually 2 and 3) (2.3) 4–7.4 mm wide when fresh, 2–4.9 mm when dry, glabrous or scabrous, margins often minutely denticulate especially basally, darker than lighter stem body; first internode 10–20 cm, shorter than the leaves; upper node with 2–5 branches (peduncles). Leaves glabrous or scabrous on margins, 10–39 cm long (3.7) 4.9–8 mm wide when fresh, 3.1–6.2 mm when dry, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Leafy bracts 43–155 mm long. Inflorescences borne singly. Spathes green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels denticulate to entire; outer spathe 16–30 mm, equal to 6.3 mm longer than inner spathe or occasionally slightly shorter than inner, usually curving toward apex, margins basally connate 3.2–7.3 mm; inner spathe with keel evenly curved or straight, hyaline margins 0.3–1 mm wide, apex acuminate to acute. Tepals blue to violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 9.3–11.9 mm, apex emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, slightly stipitate-glandular basally; ovary brown to black and noticeably darker than foliage when dry. Capsules brown, ± globose, 4.3–7.7 mm long; pedicel spreading or ascending. Seeds irregular, globose or obconic, 0.8–1.5 mm, granular to rugulose." (reslit: 3175).

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