Sisyrinchium

It is named Sisyrinchium bermudiana and is in the Iris family.

Bermuda Shorts: Quick Takes From An Island Perfumery Marina Geigert 2008

It is named Sisyrinchium bermudiana and is in the Iris family.

Archive 2008-10-01 Marina Geigert 2008

Of garden flowers the gladiolus and crocus are the most familiar examples, besides the various species of iris; and of wild flowers the little "blue-eyed grass" (_Sisyrinchium_).

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Columbine, or Blue-Eyed-Grass, -- though, to be sure, this last has an annoying way of shutting up its azure orbs the moment you gather it, and you reach home with a bare, stiff blade, which deserves no better name than _Sisyrinchium anceps.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

The "Blue-eyed Grass" of Canada (_Sisyrinchium angustifolium_) is likewise confined to the West of Ireland and to North America; and further instances might be quoted.

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

So these are plants that are noted self-seeders at Wisley, and also in Sheffield: Cyclamen hederifolium, Galanthus spp. (snowdrops), Helleborus × hybridus, Oenothera spp. (evening primrose), Sisyrinchium striatum (pale yellow-eyed grass) and Stipa tenuissima (feather grass).

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

And in the gravel of the central sunken area such plants are accompanied by Californian blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium bellum, a self-seeding perennial with violet stars above grassy leaves, and the upright feathery reed grass Calamagrostis acutiflora, together with thyme, rosemary and grey westringia bushes.

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Sisyrinchium 'Devon Skies' bears especially large, bluish-purple flowers, each with a dark violet ring surrounding its yellow eye.

SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2010

Sisyrinchium is also known as star grass because of certain varieties 'star-shaped blooms.

SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2010

Sisyrinchium striatum 'Aunt May', which tends to revert to green.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010