SAN DIEGO (CNS) — San Diego has a new official flower, following the City Council's unanimous vote Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with the native western blue-eyed grass. The campaign to ...

Blue-eyed grass is a wildflower with a clump-forming growth pattern, featuring narrow, blade-like leaves and blue-violet flowers with yellow centers. Despite its name, it is not a true grass. This ...

Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium spp. While I have been swapping out non-natives for natives in my garden for years, blue-eyed grass was not on my radar until a few years ago. I found it in my backyard.

(FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego has a new official native flower after the city council unanimously approved the designation on Tuesday after a months-long campaign by a group that included public votes. The ...

San Diego has a new city flower for the first time in 61 years. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to replace the non-native carnation with blue-eyed grass, a native flower that can be found ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego has a new official flower that's native to the area. On Tuesday, the City Council voted to replace the non-native carnation with the Blue-eyed Grass. The San Diego Bird Alliance ...

For many naturalists and field biologists, it was one particular bird, butterfly, plant, or other organism that revealed a different way of seeing the world and led to a lifelong interest in nature.

The Western Blue-eyed Grass. (Photo courtesy of the city of San Diego via Facebook) The city of San Diego could soon have a new official flower if the City Council Tuesday agrees to replace the ...

Every spring in Bermuda a little plant comes into flower, sprinkling the grass with jewel-like sparks of palest blue. Known as Sisyrinchium bermudiana, it was long thought to be limited to the island, ...

Cold weather does not stop many perennial weeds that grow in the Lowcountry. Some, like blue-eyed grass, grow year round, while others, like dandelion, go dormant in summer. Here are several perennial ...