Sisyrinchium

[vaneramos]

This photo appears as sidebar to a recent post in The Yarn about this wildflower. I thought the blue-eyed grass in my rock garden had finished flowering, but today is a new sunny day, and a fresh ring of flowers opened this morning, so I wasted no time in recording it. The plant has bloomed steadily since I brought it from a garden centre a month ago, and has been more tolerant of the sunny, dry weather than other transplants. The flower of this 'Devon Skies' cultivar is the size of my thumbnail, slightly larger and showier than native S. montanum I find in wild meadows.

Comments

[missprune.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you reminded me about the Yarn project. I'm ging to enjoy reading those posts.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to have you along!

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Neat! I didn’t know there were species that far east! We have Sisyrinchium bellum here. Quite literally, there’s some growing right outside the window where I’m typing this right now.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Cool! Yes, judging by the vague geographical descriptions in Roger Tory Peterson, there are at least two species native to Ontario, and several more in the east.