Sisyrinchium longipes (E.P.Bicknell) Kearney & Peebles

Timberland blue-eyed grass (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Iridaceae > Sisyrinchium

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, cespitose, green to medium olive when dry, to 4.6 dm, not glaucous. Stems simple, 0.6–1.7(–2.3) mm wide, glabrous, margins entire, similar in color and texture to stem body. Leaf blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire; outer 12.5–36 mm, 0–16 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 3.5–9 mm; inner with keel evenly curved to straight, hyaline margins 0.4–0.6 mm wide, apex usually extending as 2 rounded, sometimes erose lobes, ending 0–1.5 mm proximal to green apex. Flowers: tepals yellow to orange, usually with brownish or occasionally purplish veins; outer tepals 7–11 mm, apex acute to rounded; filaments connate basally, glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules dark brown to black, slightly turbinate to ± globose, 4.5–9 mm; pedicel ascending to erect. Seeds ± hemispherical, with slight depression on flattened side, 1–1.7 mm, rugulose. 2n = 34.
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Mature height (meter) 0.41 - 0.46
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
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Distribution

Sisyrinchium longipes world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:441150-1
WFO ID wfo-0000786493
COL ID 4XSQB
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Synonyms

Sisyrinchium longipes Hydastylus longipes