So many favorites. Favorites that, in part, are emerging right now. Emerging as spring makes itself at home. One of those favorites – Common Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium).

The many Common Blue-eyed Grass flowers charm innumerable pollinators like Sweat Bees, Bumble Bees, Bee Flies, Syrphid Flies, and Spring Azures. And the seeds of those flowers provide food for songbirds.

Native to eastern Canada and the US, west to Texas and Minnesota. Not a grass at all but in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

Common Blue-eyed Grass, one of countless favorites.

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