PALE YELLOW-EYED-GRASS
Sisyrinchium striatum
Iris Family [Iridaceae] 
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| 3rd July 2010, Yaxley, Suffolk. | Photo: © Nick Roche |
| The tallest 'eyed-grass', up to 75cm high, this specimen but young. |
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| 3rd July 2010, Yaxley, Suffolk. | Photo: © Nick Roche |
| The single stem has several small bunches of flowers at each emerging leaflet. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Petals twisted around in bud like those of some other flowers... |
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| 3rd July 2010, Yaxley, Suffolk. | Photo: © Nick Roche |
| A bunch of flowers occupies each nook where a leaf emerges from the main stem. The petals un-twist as the flower opens. Purple stripes adorn the outer surface of the petals. Note the two pale-green triangular bracts beneath each whorl of flowers. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Tallest when in fruit. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| New fruits forming have six bulges at the top (top left), which disappear as the fruit bulges outwards (top centre). |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Flared like a euphonium, and with a brass-coloured inner. Most flowers have three anthers, much fewer have five. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| The petals have longitudinal dark stipes, whilst the inner has a golden-yellow glow. In common with all other 'eyed-grasses' the petals have a pointed 'spike' at the tip. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| The tiered-whorled nature of the flowers is more apparent when they are in fruit. Stem apparently square (at least where the flowers are). |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Petals flared and recurved outwards like other' eyed-grasses'. Both fruits and flowers larger than Blue-eyed-Grass. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Purple stripes more apparent on external surface of petals, the central one more prominent than the rest. bulbous fruits strangely reminiscent of something. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
| Some flowering spikes grow much longer than do others. |
| 2nd Aug 2013, pub garden, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside | Photo: © RWD |
The sword-like leaves are a glaucous green, and unlike other 'eyed-grasses' are not grass-like in the same very narrow way, but more like those of the Iris (Iridaceae) family. |
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Some similarities to : Blue-eyed Grass, A member of the Iris Family.
Some similarities to: some More likely to be found in a garden than growing wild. It is non-native to the UK but is to South America where it has a great propensity to spread uncontrollably, but is short-lived in the UK and found on tips and other waste ground as a garden throw-out and has a strong presence in the Home Counties and the Welsh Borders. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature :
No relation to :
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 Sisyrinchium
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striatum
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Iridaceae
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 Sisyrinchium (Blue-eyed-grasses) |
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Iris Family [Iridaceae]
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