Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Lucerne'
$15.00 – $20.00
Native through most of eastern North America, this ornamental grass is an exciting flower for the garden as well as for naturalizing with its exquisite blue flowers and silvery emerging foliage
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass has masses of beautiful plumes of lavender flowers with blue overtones | lemon yellow eyes and violet veins at the ends of the stems from late spring to early summer | which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its attractive glossy narrow leaves emerge silvery blue in spring | turning bluish-green in color throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 10 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil pH | but grows best in sandy soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selection of a native North American species. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 10"Hx10"W
Flowers are lavender
Flowers from late spring to early summer
Attracts butterflies; hummingbirds
Zone 4b
Likes average to moist soil