2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Although we have plenty of our own plants with blue-blue flowers, American Blue-eyed grasses can increasingly be found in flower beds of summer residents who love unpretentious plants
Sisyurinhium
The Latin name of the genus of plants "Sisyrinchium" in translation into Russian does not sound romantic at all, since it is based on two Greek words: "pig" and "muzzle". And this is due to the love of pigs for the rhizome or bulbs of the plant, to which they get in their traditional way, while loosening the earth much more efficiently than a person using a shovel. True, not all botanists agree with this origin of the name.
By the way, if your garden is overcome by stubborn Wheatgrass creeping, and you are not going to squeeze juice from its fresh leaves to treat bronchitis or seasonal colds, but you also cannot cope with its tenacious and tenacious rhizome, buy a pig. She will rid the garden of the annoying stranger and provide meat and lard for the whole winter.
However, we are not talking about pigs, but about plants of the genus "Sisyrinchium", the rhizomes of which were to the taste of this domestic animal. But people also like the rhizome, from which such a variety of plants grow, that even botanists still cannot agree on criteria for determining the conformity of a particular plant to a given genus.
Iris family
No matter how botanists are tormented, compiling classifications of the plant world, they refer the plants of the Sisyurinhium genus to the Iris family. After all, representatives of the genus with their underground part have either a sprawling rhizome, each year giving birth to new flower stalks (like most Iris), or a bulbous cone (like Gladioli or Crocuses).
Therefore, if you have acquired a stranger Sisyurinhium and do not know how to care for him, remember the methods of growing Irises, Gladioli, Crocuses …
Blue eyed grass
In order not to break the tongue when pronouncing the word "Sisyurinhium", people came up with a clear and easily pronounced name of plants of the genus - Blue-eyed grass. Although the flowers of different types may not be light blue or bluish-violet, which gave the romantic name, but also white, yellow, pink, violet, purple, often with a contrasting center in color.
For example, in
Sisyurinhium california The "eye" is golden:
What attracts gardeners to this uncomplicated plant, the flowers of which do not even exude a scent?
And they attract with their unpretentiousness, frost resistance, drought resistance, longevity and some special charm inherent in everything that was born far from the native threshold.
Narrow-leaved blue-eyed
Still, the most popular type of Blue-Eyed Grass is a perennial herb that chooses wet meadows, the banks of water bodies or forest ravines for its place of residence.
Its six blue-blue petals and pointed narrow leaves gave the plant its name - Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed. The petals are decorated with longitudinal blue veins and a coquettish pointed tip. The blue eye looks at the world with light and joy with its yellow pupil.
It is this cultivated species that loves to decorate man-made flower beds.
Sisyurinhium striped
The appearance of this plant will not inspire every grower. Its striped leaves are not much different from the usual Iris leaves, but the pale yellow racemose inflorescences of small flowers, in my opinion, even lose out to large Iris flowers.
However, the advertisement praises the frost resistance of a plant that can survive the winters of central Russia without additional shelter, drought resistance, longevity and the ability to keep shape when arranging flower borders.
Sitting in a mixborder, the plant does not pretend to be a leader, but helps other plants to demonstrate their beauty against the background of strict xiphoid leaves, which, at times, is very important for the overall composition of the flower garden.
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Blue-eyed
Blue-eyed (lat.Sisyrinchium) - a numerous genus of plants with a difficult to pronounce Latin name and an underground part in the form of a tenacious rhizome or pineal bulb. Contrary to the name of the genus, the petals of its simple flowers are not blue in all species, and the Latin name hides a completely different meaning.
Blue-eyed Forked
Blue-eyed forked (Latin Sisyrinchium dichotomum) - a herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Goluboglazka (lat. Sisyrinchium), ranked by botanists in the Iris family (lat. Iridaceae). This rare flowering plant of the genus Sisyrinchium is listed as endangered in the United States of America.
Californian Blue-eyed
Californian blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium californicum) - a herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium), belonging to the Iris family (Latin Iridaceae). It does not justify its generic name "Blue-eyed", since the color of the petals of its delicate flowers is not blue-blue, like most of its relatives, but golden-yellow.
Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed
Narrow-leaved blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium angustifolium) - the most widespread species of the genus Blue-eyed (lat. Sisyrinchium) from the Iris family (lat. Iridaceae) in floriculture. A perennial plant with blue-blue flowers, making up for the lack of compact bushes with its beauty, strength and perseverance.
Mountain Blue-eyed
Mountain blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium montanum) - a herbaceous plant with a strict appearance of the genus Blue-eyed (Latin Sisyrinchium), ranked in the Iris family (Latin Iridaceae). This species is very similar to the Sisyrinchium angustifolium (Latin Sisyrinchium angustifolium), so sometimes these two species are combined.
