Sisyrinchium bellumS.Watson

western blue-eyed grass

WFO wfo-0000786457 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. a Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204697866
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt
fig. b Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202820038
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. c Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202009052
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by velodrome
fig. d velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200125672
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by Kristen Francis
fig. e Kristen Francis, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204793136
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by P Holroyd
fig. f P Holroyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201993761
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by rappman
fig. g rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200352242
Sisyrinchium bellum, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. h Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200674890

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 5,773 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 5,773 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bermudiana bella (S.Watson) Greene
  • Sisyrinchium angustifolium var. bellum (S.Watson) Baker
  • Sisyrinchium eastwoodiae E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium greenei E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium hesperium E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium maritimum A.Heller

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.