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|accepted_name=Sisyrinchium bellum
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=12: 277. 1877
|year=1877
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium angustifolium var. bellum
|authority=(S. Watson) Baker
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium eastwoodiae
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium greenei
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium hesperium
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium maritimum
|authority=A. Heller
}}
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Sisyrinchium;Sisyrinchium bellum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sisyrinchium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sisyrinchium bellum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 354, 355, 359, 368
|treatment_page=page 363
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, green to ashy olive when dry, to 3.8 dm, not glaucous. <b>Stems</b> branched, with 1–2 nodes, 1.5–5.3 mm wide, glabrous, margins entire to denticulate apically, similar in color and texture to stem body; first internode 11–33 cm, usually equaling or longer than leaves; distalmost node with 2–3 branches. <b>Leaf</b> blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. <b>Inflorescences</b> borne singly; spathes green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels entire to denticulate; outer 14–30 mm, usually 2–7 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 4–7.6 mm; inner with keel evenly curved to straight, hyaline margins 0.1–0.7 mm wide, apex abruptly widening, ending 0.2–1.3 mm proximal to green apex. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals light blue to dark bluish violet or rarely purplish or white, bases yellow; outer tepals often broadly cuneate, 10–17 mm, apex rounded, truncate, or occasionally emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, usually glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. <b>Capsules</b> tan to dark brown, globose to obovoid, 3–5 mm; pedicel erect to ascending. <b>Seeds</b> globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1.5–2.2 mm, rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring–late summer.
|habitat=Open, mostly moist, grassy areas and woods
|elevation=0–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Sisyrinchium bellum</i> is the most common species of <i>Sisyrinchium</i> in California; it is highly variable in habit, flower color, and size. Plants of serpentine areas are intermediate with <i>S. idahoense </i>var.<i> idahoense</i>; plants of the Transverse Ranges are intermediate with <i>S. demissum</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sisyrinchium bellum
|author=
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sisyrinchium angustifolium var. bellum;Sisyrinchium eastwoodiae;Sisyrinchium greenei;Sisyrinchium hesperium;Sisyrinchium maritimum
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring–late summer.
|habitat=Open, mostly moist, grassy areas and woods
|elevation=0–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1877
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_736.xml
|genus=Sisyrinchium
|species=Sisyrinchium bellum
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