Photographs: Glenbeg, Co. Cork

Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium bermudiana (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) Feilistrín gorm Family: Iridaceae Flowering time: June - August. Perennial. Native or possibly introduced. Loose racemes of 2-4 small blue flowers with yellow centres and leaf-like bracts below flowers. Basal leaves are linear and iris-like and the stems are flattened. A hairless, erect plant, growing from rhizomes. To 60cm. Wet meadows, lake shores and marshy ground mainly in Co. Cork and Co. Kerry, scattered elsewhere in Ireland. A North American species, probably native in Ireland and protected in Northern Ireland. Similar: American Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium montanum

Blue-eyed-grass, Sisyrinchium bermudiana, Feilistrín gorm