Sasha's Flower Garden

Sisyrinchium is a large genus of perennial plants native American seasonal belonging to the family Iridaceae. Comprises approximately 150 species, distributed throughout the Americas, from Greenland and northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. There are widespread species such as S. iridifolium (from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego) and others with a highly restricted habitat (as S. filifolium Falkland Islands). Description The plants of this genus have a rhizome persistent, or short and erect a crown with fibrous roots, or thickened and swollen and succulent. It also includes annual plants without roots or succulent rhizome. The leaves are lanceolate to linear, occasionally cylindrical. The scape is simple or variously branched, angular, sometimes winged, comprising one or more internodes, the husks can be equal or unequal. The flowers are actinomorphic, pedicellate, usually yellow or blue to purple with a ... read more