Sisyrinchium fuscatumE.P.Bicknell

coastal plain blue-eyed grass

WFO wfo-0000786322 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. a Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / 2021-07-13 / obs. 144334623
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. b Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137068424
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. c Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136600142
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. d Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136421879
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. e Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136421451
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by John Kees
fig. f John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133950345
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. g Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 68733612
Sisyrinchium fuscatum, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. h Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144334656

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Sisyrinchium fuscatum is native: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, South Carolina, Virginia, Bahamas AlabamaConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaMarylandMassachusettsMissouriNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaSouth CarolinaVirginia DelawareBahamas
Native distribution of Sisyrinchium fuscatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Missouri MSO
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
South Carolina SCA
Virginia VRG
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Sisyrinchium arenicola E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium farwellii E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium incrustatum E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium rufipes E.P.Bicknell
  • Sisyrinchium tenellum E.P.Bicknell

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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