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§1 Plant

Sisyrinchium campestre E.P. Bicknell

vernacular prairie blue-eyed grass — species · Iridaceae


USDA
SICA9
GBIF
5296152
Rank
species
prairie blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium campestre)
Platephotograph · roberta herschleb source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Iridaceae Juss.
Genus
Sisyrinchium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 410 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 410 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 410 counties across 14 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 26 N
Illinois view state ↗ 42 N
Iowa view state ↗ 22 N
Kansas view state ↗ 54 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 64 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 68 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 39 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 27 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 14 N
Texas view state ↗ 5 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 43 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SICA9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5296152 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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