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Elmer's Blue Eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium elmeri Greene

Description

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Herbs, perennial, cespitose, dark green to ashy olive when dry, to 3.2 dm, not glaucous. Stems simple, 0.6–1.7 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire, similar in color and texture to stem body. Leaf blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire; outer 13–20 mm, 1–2.4 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 3.8–5.5 mm; inner with keel ± straight, hyaline margins 0.2–0.7 mm wide, apex extending as 2 rounded or broadly erose lobes, ending just proximal to or slightly exceeding green apex. Flowers: tepals deep yellow to yellowish orange with brownish veins; outer tepals 7.5–8.5 mm, apex obtuse or rounded; filaments ± distinct or connate to 1/2 their length, glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules dark brown, globose to turbinate or broadly fusiform, 5–7.9 mm; pedicel recurved to spreading. Seeds hemispherical, with slight depression on one side, 1–1.2 mm, smooth. 2n = 34.
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Flora of North America Vol. 26: 353, 356, 357 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Calif.
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Flowering/Fruiting

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Flowering late spring--late summer.
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Habitat

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Moist montane areas, bogs, edges of marshes, stream banks, meadows; 1100--2700m.
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Synonym

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Hydastylus elmeri (Greene) E. P. Bicknell; H. rivularis E. P. Bicknell
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Sisyrinchium elmeri

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Sisyrinchium elmeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae known by the common name Elmer's blue-eyed grass.[2] It is endemic to California, where it is known from many of the mountain ranges from the Klamath Mountains through the Sierra Nevada to the San Bernardino Mountains. It grows in moist habitat types such as meadows and bogs.

Description

Sisyrinchium elmeri is rhizomatous perennial herb takes a clumpy form, its narrow stems growing up to about 20 to 30 centimeters tall. It is medium green and nonwaxy, and it dries to a dark green or brownish color, but does not turn black. The flat, narrow leaves are grasslike. The flower has six tepals measuring roughly a centimeter long. They are yellow to yellow-orange with dark brown veining. The fruit is a dark brown capsule.

References

  1. ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Sisyrinchium elmeri". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 16 November 2015.

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Sisyrinchium elmeri: Brief Summary

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Sisyrinchium elmeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae known by the common name Elmer's blue-eyed grass. It is endemic to California, where it is known from many of the mountain ranges from the Klamath Mountains through the Sierra Nevada to the San Bernardino Mountains. It grows in moist habitat types such as meadows and bogs.

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