Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium spp. While I have been swapping out non-natives for natives in my garden for years, blue-eyed grass was not on my radar until a few years ago. I found it in my backyard.

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Blue-eyed grass is a compact, clump-forming Ohio native ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) — San Diego has a new official flower, following the City Council's unanimous vote Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with the native western blue-eyed grass. The campaign to ...

San Diego has a new city flower for the first time in 61 years. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with blue-eyed grass, a native flower that can be found ...

St. Patrick's Day celebrations are filled with green beer, corned beef, shepherd's pie, Irish whiskey, and shamrocks, and everyone is Irish. This year, I was thinking about the plants and flowers of ...

Blue-eyed grass is a native Ohio perennial that belongs to the iris family, not the grass family. The plant features purple, star-shaped flowers with yellow centers that attract pollinators like bees ...