blue-eyed grass

noun

any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Sisyrinchium, of the iris family, having grasslike leaves and small, usually blue, flowers.

blue-eyed grass

any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers

First recorded in 1775–85

Here he set growing dainty blue-eyed-Marys and blue-eyed grass side by side.

Almost all the grass was blue-eyed grass, too, and there were yellow lilies all over the pool.

The blue-eyed grass is such a modest flower, one would never suspect it to be closely allied to the regal Iris.

The Blue-eyed Grass is not a grass at all, but is so called on account of the grass-like leaves.

The most valued flower of my childhood, outside the garden, was a little sister of the Iris—the Blue-eyed Grass.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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