ONH Plants - Blue-eyed Grass

Blue-eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium sp.

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1 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium douglasii.
07/07/2010 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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2 - Idaho Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium idahoense var. macounii.
06/26/2016 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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3 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/24/2011 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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4 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/07/2010 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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5 - Idaho Blue-eyed Grass.
06/26/2016 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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6 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/07/2012 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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7 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/07/2012 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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8 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass intermixed with Glacier Lily.
07/07/2012 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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9 - Blue-eyed Grass (upper left) blooms as soon as the snow retreats.
07/07/2010 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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10 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/07/2010 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park
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11 - Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass.
07/07/2010 Blue Mountain/Deer Park, Olympic National Park

Douglas’ Blue-eyed Grass — Sisyrinchium douglasii

Idaho Blue-eyed Grass — S. idahoense var. macounii

Both species of Blue-eyed Grass are listed in Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Pojar and Mackinnon, 2004, as growing at low to middle elevations, but we’ve only seen and photographed it in north-sloping meadows below and east of the peak of Blue Mountain in Olympic National Park, just below 6,000 feet. It blooms days after the snow melts, just yards away from the retreating snow line. Sometimes Blue-eyed Grass and Glacier Lilly are intermixed. The blooms last only a short time.

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