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|accepted_name=Sisyrinchium littorale
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=4: 33. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Sisyrinchium;Sisyrinchium littorale
|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 littorale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 356, 370
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, slightly cespitose, dark olive when dry, to 4.2 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes scarcely discernable. <b>Stems</b> simple, obviously winged, 2.2–3.5 mm wide, glabrous, margins denticulate, similar in color and texture to stem body. <b>Leaf</b> blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. <b>Inflorescences</b> borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire or denticulate; outer 36–58 mm, 6–39 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 4.5–7 mm; inner with keel evenly curved, hyaline margins 0.2–0.5 mm wide, apex acute, ending 0.2–2 mm proximal to green apex. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals light blue to usually deep bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 11–16 mm, apex rounded to slightly truncate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. <b>Capsules</b> beige to dark brown, ± globose, 6.2–8.1 mm; pedicel erect to ascending. <b>Seeds</b> globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1.2–1.7 mm, rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 96.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Moist, sandy or grassy areas near coast, interdunal depressions, edges of streams and lakes
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Populations of <i>Sisyrinchium littorale</i> in coastal Washington and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, intergrade with <i>S. idahoense </i>var.<i> segetum</i>. <i>Sisyrinchium littorale</i>, however, has larger capsules and wider stems and leaves.</p>
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name=Sisyrinchium littorale
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Moist, sandy or grassy areas near coast, interdunal depressions, edges of streams and lakes
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1899
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Sisyrinchium
|species=Sisyrinchium littorale
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