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Iridaceae

Strict blue-eyed grass

Sisyrinchium montanum Greene

Family
Iridaceae
Genus
Sisyrinchium

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Strict blue-eyed grass: Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium montanum) growing in my lawn in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Photo: Limulus, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (12)
Belarusian
Блакітнавочка горная
Chinese
百慕庭菖蒲
English
Strict blue-eyed grass
Estonian
Ahtalehine sininokk
Finnish
Vuorisilmiö
Latvian
Šaurlapu sizirinhija
Norwegian Bokmål
Sivlilje
Norwegian Nynorsk
Sivlilje
Russian
Голубоглазка горная, Сизиринхиум горный, Сисюринхий горный
Swedish
Gräslilja
Ukrainian
Синьоочки вузьколисті
Welsh
Sisirinciwm y mynydd

Characteristics

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native

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Sources: classification 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.