Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium ‘Lucerne‘
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Perennial
Height at Maturity:Â 6-10″
Width at Maturity:Â 8-12″
Spacing:Â 10″ mass plantings
Spacing:Â 10″ mass plantings
Growth Habit / Form:Â Upright, Grassy Clump
Growth Rate:Â Fast
Flower Color:Â Bright Blue-Violet with Yellow Eye
Flower Type:Â Â Single
Flower Size:Â Small 1″
Flowering Period:Â Late Spring to Early Summer
Flowering Period:Â Late Spring to Early Summer
Fragrant Flowers:Â N/A
Foliage Color:Â Blue Green
Fragrant Foliage:Â No
Berries:Â No
Sun Needs:Â Full Sun or Partial Shade
Water Needs:Â Â Average
Soil Type:Â Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage:Â Moist But Well Drained to Dry or Wet!
Soil pH:Â 5.0 – 7.0 (Acid to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care:Â Very Low
Attracts:Â Visual attention
Resistances:Â Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit, Wet Soils
Description
Discovered in Lucerne Switzerland, this Blue-eyed grass is prized for its larger flowers and heavy bloom. Sisyrinchiumhas angustifolium ‘Lucerne’ forms attractive tufts of iris-like blue-green foliage from which rise thin stems topped with very cute star-shaped flowers with violet-blue petals surrounding a golden-yellow eye. Blooms in late spring to early summer with repeat flowering in moist sites. Highly adaptable, you can grow this one in moist to dry soils, though it has performed best for us in a consistently moist soil making it a perfect selection for those moisture retentive sites. A very low maintenance plant, this diminutive beauty is great for pollinators and early season butterflies and it’s seeds enjoyed by birds.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 6 to 10 inches tall and spreading slowly to 8 to 12 inches or more, Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass is a perfect choice for use as an accent in small garden spaces and containers or in groupings or as a border edger along garden beds or paths and walkways. It looks great around rocks and boulders around the garden pond. A fine addition to bog gardens, ornamental grass gardens and blue theme gardens.
Suggested Spacing:Â 10 inches for mass plantings;Â 24 inches or more for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass is very easy to grow in most any moist to wet soil of average fertility and full sun to shade. Established plants have moderate drought tolerance. Can be grown in pots that are situated at the margins of the garden pond. Essentially maintenance free. It slowly naturalizes into clumps by spreading roots but is not invasive at all. We rarely fertilize or prune it. In areas that experience colder winters the foliage may need to be groomed or cut back to the ground before new growth emerges in spring.Â
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