Pot Size: 5.25 Inch Square Pot
A unique plant with stunning star-like blue-purple flowers and rich green grass-like leaves. Has a great mounding/spreading habit. It blooms in abundance in late spring and early summer, but will occasionally send up more blooms throughout the summer. Excellent perennial for bright woodland gardens, rock gardens, or bed edges. Feeds our native pollinators! Native to the eastern U.S. Also known as Sisyrinchium graminoides.
Uses: Beds, Borders, Cottage Gardens, Cut Flower, Edging, Mass Planting, Miniature Gardens, Rock Gardens
Nature Attraction: Bees, Birds
Critter Resistance: Deer
Notable Features: Native
Growth Habit: Upright, Clumping
Homeowner Growing Tips: Grow in full or partial sun, in moist, well-drained soil. Amend with compost before planting. Apply only a thin layer of mulch around the plant. Avoid allowing larger plants to crowd it out. May be deadheaded after blooming, if desired. Keep moist during the heat of summer. Divide every 2-3 years in spring.
Great plants! I just received two of these and they are large healthy clumps. I love blue eyed grass so I am excited to see these bloom next year. I have a couple of Sisyrinchium “Suwannee” plants that I adore and the foliage growth of this plant is very similar, which is great. (I had tried another variety in the past that had purple flowers, like this, but the plant was sparse and leggy and therefore did not look as pretty.)
