Mountain Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum Greene)
Also known as strict blue-eyed grass.
USDA PLANTS lumps strict blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium strictum) in with this species; we separate them per the treatment of POWO and BONAP.
↑Range - Expand
| Legend | Color |
| Native | |
| Native or Not Present |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.
↑Notes
Many sources use the common name "strict blue-eyed grass" but this is misleading because that name also refers to strict blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium strictum), a species for which the descriptor "strict" matches the scientific epithet strictum. This species, on the other hand, has the epithet montanum which corresponds to the descriptor "mountain", so we found it a better descriptor. Furthermore, its distribution and range corresponds fairly well to mountains, being found in much of the the mountainous parts of the interior West as well as New England through Central PA.
↑Links & External Resources
• Sisyrinchium montanum (strict blue-eyed grass)‡ | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Sisyrinchium montanum | Go Botany (About This Site)
• Sisyrinchium montanum | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Sisyrinchium montanum | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Sisyrinchium montanum | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Strict Blue-eyed Grass | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Sisyrinchium montanum (Mountain Blue-eyed Grass) | Minnesota Wildflowers (About This Site)
Different Taxonomic Treatments
‡ These links refer to a larger population than covered by this page.
