{"id":208,"date":"2014-06-15T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:01:58","slug":"prairie-blue-eyed-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Prairie blue-eyed grass <em>(Sisyrinchium campestre)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_209\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass_06-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"prairie blue-eyed grass\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass_06-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass_06.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prairie blue-eyed grass <em>(Sisyrinchium campestre)<\/em> is misnamed. It is not a grass but a member of the Iris (Iridaceae) family. It is found in full sun in dry to moderately moist upland prairies, meadows, and sometimes woodland openings. It appears as a tuft of 2 to 6 narrow, grass-like leaves and one or more narrow flowering stems. The stems are leafless and conspicuously winged. From May to July a cluster of 1 to 11 flowers appears at the end of the stem. The flowers are pale violet, light blue, or white and have a yellow center.<\/p>\n<p>There are four species of blue-eyed grass found in Minnesota and they can be difficult to tell apart. To identify the species take note of the waxiness of the leaves; the flower color; the number of flower clusters; the color of the bracts below the flower cluster (spathe), strongly tinged, lightly tinged, or not tinged at all; and whether the margins of the outer spathe bract are united at the base.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_blue-eyed_grass.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=208\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prairie blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium campestre) is misnamed. It is not a grass but a member of the Iris (Iridaceae) family. It is found in full sun in dry to moderately moist upland prairies, meadows, and sometimes woodland openings. It appears as a tuft of 2 to 6 narrow, grass-like leaves and one or more narrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}