It is named Sisyrinchium bermudiana and is in the Iris family. From Wordnik.com. [Bermuda Shorts: Quick Takes From An Island Perfumery] Reference
Sisyrinchium striatum 'Aunt May', which tends to revert to green. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Sisyrinchium is also known as star grass because of certain varieties 'star-shaped blooms. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
Other vascular plant endemics are: Bermuda spike rush (Eloecharis bermudiana), Bermuda sedge (Carex bermudiana), wild pepper (Peperomia septentrionalis), wild Bermuda bean (Phaseolus lignosus), St. Andrew’s cross (Ascyrum hypericoides), Bermuda snowberry (Chiococca bermudiana), Darrell’s fleabane (Erigeron darrellianus), and Bermudiana (Sisyrinchium bermudiana). From Wordnik.com. [Bermuda subtropical conifer forests] Reference
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum album, 276. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Sisyrinchium striatum (from Threadspider). From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
2006, EDAW 2010) Stachys byzantine (RHS 2006, EDAW 2010) Sisyrinchium striatum 'Aunt Mary'. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, 274. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Sisyrinchium striatum. From Wordnik.com. [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference
Sisyrinchium Iridioides. From Wordnik.com. [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference
Scilla campanulata, Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, Soldanellas, Symphytum caucasicum, Tritelia uniflora, Vesicaria græca. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Scilla campanulata, Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, Soldanellas, Spiræa ulmaria variegata, Symphytum caucascium, Tiarella cordifolia, Trientalis europæa, Trillium erectum, Triteleia uniflora, Vaccinium Vitis Idæa. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
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