View source for Sisyrinchium sagittiferum

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|accepted_name=Sisyrinchium sagittiferum
|accepted_authority=E. P. Bicknell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=26: 230. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Sisyrinchium;Sisyrinchium sagittiferum
|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 sagittiferum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 352, 355, 371
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, dark brown to reddish brown or brownish olive when dry, to 4.5 dm, not glaucous. <b>Stems</b> simple, 0.9–2.1 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire, usually not hyaline, similar in color and texture to stem body. <b>Leaf</b> blades glabrous, bases becoming fibrous, persisting in tufts. <b>Inflorescences</b> borne singly; spathes often purplish brown, glabrous, keels entire; outer 15–33 mm, 6.2–13 mm longer than inner, basally connate 1–2.7 mm, tapering evenly towards apex; inner with keel gibbous basally, hyaline margins 0.5–0.6 mm wide, apex rounded or truncate, somewhat erose, usually extending beyond green apex as 2 lobes. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals blue to bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 7.8–13 mm, apex rounded to slightly emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, slightly stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. <b>Capsules</b> dark reddish brown, ± globose, 2.7–4.3 mm; pedicel spreading to ascending. <b>Seeds</b> globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 0.5–1.1 mm, rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring, sometimes again in fall.
|habitat=Low, moist areas, sandy grasslands or pine woods, roadsides
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Ala.;La.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>K. L. Hornberger (1987, 1991) and D. S. Correll and M. C. Johnston (1970) considered <i>Sisyrinchium</i> texanum to be conspecific with <i>S. sagittiferum</i> (Correll and Johnston called it a “hybrid form”). E. P. Bicknell, however, described <i>S. sagittiferum</i> as being unbranched, and the single (poor) type specimen (Riddell s.n., NY) agrees. We follow Bicknell’s original concept of a single-stemmed <i>S. sagittiferum</i>. <i>Sisyrinchium</i> texanum, being branched, is not considered a synonym here.</p>
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name=Sisyrinchium sagittiferum
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring, sometimes again in fall.
|habitat=Low, moist areas, sandy grasslands or pine woods, roadsides
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Ala.;La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1899
|special status=
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|genus=Sisyrinchium
|species=Sisyrinchium sagittiferum
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