Iridaceae
Stiff blue-eyed grass
Sisyrinchium demissum
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Sisyrinchium
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Stiff blue-eyed grass
Synonyms
- Sisyrinchium amethystinum E.P.Bicknell
- Sisyrinchium demissum var. amethystinum (E.P.Bicknell) Kearney & Peebles
- Sisyrinchium longipedunculatum E.P.Bicknell
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alina Martin https://www.inaturalist.org/people/alinamartin, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Abraham Sánchez Romero https://www.inaturalist.org/people/abrahamsanchez, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: LUFJARD, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Sisyrinchium
- Strict blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium montanumIridaceae
- Narrowleaf blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium angustifoliumIridaceae
- Sisyrinchium striatumIridaceae
- Golden blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium californicumIridaceae
- BermudianaSisyrinchium bermudianaIridaceae
- White blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium albidumIridaceae
- Swordleaf blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium chilenseIridaceae
- Funeral Mountain blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium funereumIridaceae
- Annual blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium micranthumIridaceae
- Eastern blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium atlanticumIridaceae
- Western blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium bellumIridaceae
- Wishbone blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium dichotomumIridaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.