| Scientific Name | Sisyrinchium species | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Iris ( Iridaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| 6 Petals
Upright or sprawling, clumped, delicate, smooth perenial 3 - 12 in. Flower: To 1 in across, 6 petallike segments, violet-purple to purple-blue, rarely white, with 3 yellow conspicuous wide-spreading stamens. Usually close at night and during overcast weather. Leaves: To 9 in. long and 1/8 in wide, grasslike. | |||||||||||||
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Reference: George. Diggs, Jr., Barney Lipscomb and Robert O'Kennon Shinners & Mahler's Flora of North Central Texas p. 1174 | |||||||||||||
March - May
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