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Frosted blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium pruinosum) - a turf-forming flowering plant of the genus Goluboglazka (lat. Sisyrinchium), referred by botanists to the Iris family (lat. Iridaceae). The sun-loving plant loves to amaze a person with abundant flowering on a fine spring day, when it seems that the heavens have tumbled over meadows and pastures, filling them with an endless blue carpet. It is widely used in cultural gardening for the arrangement of flower borders.
What's in your name
What is hidden under the Latin name of the genus "Sisyrinchium" has already been repeatedly described in articles about other plant species belonging to the genus. But all the same, we will briefly repeat: the old cloak "sisyra" made of shaggy goat wool is very similar in its surface to the shaggy corms and rhizomes of plants of the genus. Therefore, Karl Linay decided to combine such plants into an independent genus "Sisyrinchium" of the Iris family (lat. Iridaceae).
Since the blue of the flowers of plants is more striking to ordinary people than the underground parts of it, the people gave the genus the tender name "Blue-eyed". In addition, the plants of the genus have many names for synonyms, which can sometimes be the subject of controversy for fans of this heavenly-earthly beauty. This does not prevent the plant from sometimes changing the blue color of flower petals to other shades (white, yellow, cream …).
The specific epithet "pruinosum" ("frosty") is assigned to this species for the visual deception of its spring silvery-gray leaves, which seem to be covered with frost. The main photo of the article demonstrates this well.
Frosted blue-eyed is no exception in the genus, having numerous synonyms for names. For example, it is called: "Dotted Blue-eyed-grass", "Roadside Blue-eyed-grass".
Description
Light green foliage and thin, rough, branched stems of Blue-eyed frosty rise to a height of 10 to 35 centimeters. Perennial bushes look ash-silver at the beginning of life, and when, aging, dry up, they turn into olive-bronze.
Usually rough leaf blades form a slender basal rosette of leaves. Longitudinal rough veins give the leaves roughness.
The ends of the stems are crowned with single, green, rough sepals, fused at the base and forming a reliable protection for delicate flower petals. Sometimes flowers form inflorescences.
The flower petals range in color from bluish purple to purplish blue, but there are varieties with white petals. Longitudinal veins of a slightly darker shade run along the surface of the petal, creating the appearance of a bulge. Sometimes the edge of the flower has a thin flirtatious tongue in the center (the so-called awn). The base of the flower is yellow, like a sun peephole looks at the world along with yellow stamens while the real sun is shining in the sky. As soon as the sun hides behind rain clouds, the petals fold, covering its yellow eye and stamens.
A breathtaking sight appears before the traveler emerging from the forest to a vast meadow or pasture for livestock on a sunny spring day. Abundant blue-blue bloom covers the space as a continuous carpet, competing with the colors of the heavens themselves.
The light brown globular capsules are the fruit of the Blue Eyes frost. Small globular seeds are hidden in the capsule.
Usage
Blue-eyed frost is often used to create beautiful borders in man-made gardens of wild flowering plants. Low-growing plant species will fit perfectly into a rockery or alpine slide. Bushes are also suitable for creating flower borders of garden paths. The abundant blue-violet-blue bloom will give the garden a gentle romantic mood.
Growing conditions
Blue-eyed frosty is a light-loving plant that closes its delicate petals with a gloomy sky.
The plant is very unpretentious to soils. It can grow in clay or sandy-clay soil.
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