Blue-eyed-grass

Blue-eyed-grass 

Sisyrinchium bermudiana 

Feilistrín gorm 

Family: Lilaceae

Flowering time: June - August. Perennial. Native or possibly introduced.

Small blue flowers with yellow centres, 2-4 in loose raceme. Open only in full sun. Leaf-like bracts below flowers, linear, iris-like basal leaves. Flattened stem. Curved, drooping fruiting stems. Hairless, erect, grows from rhizomes. To 60cm. 

Wet meadows, lake shores, marshy ground. W Ireland, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Donegal. A North American species, probably native in Ireland. A protected species in Northern Ireland.