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|accepted_name=Sisyrinchium ensigerum
|accepted_authority=E. P. Bicknell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=28: 580. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium amoenum
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sisyrinchium colubriferum
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Sisyrinchium;Sisyrinchium ensigerum
|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 ensigerum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 352, 354
|treatment_page=page 360
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose, olive green to yellowish bronze when dry, to 3.2 dm, occasionally glaucous. <b>Stems</b> branched, with 1–2 nodes, 1.9–4.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins variously serrulate, denticulate, or entire, similar in color and texture to stem body; first internode 2.6–19 cm, shorter than leaves; distalmost node with 2–3 erect to arcuate 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 15–24.5 mm, 1.4 mm shorter to 2.2 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 2.5–4.5 mm; inner with keel evenly curved, hyaline margins 0.3–0.6 mm wide, apex broadly acute to obtuse or lobed, 0.8 mm shorter to 0.4 mm longer than green apex. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals blue to light bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 8–15 mm, apex rounded to occasionally slightly emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. <b>Capsules</b> light to dark brown, obovoid to ± globose, 3.8–5.3 mm; pedicel erect to spreading. <b>Seeds</b> globose to obconic, with slight depression on one side, 1–1.5 mm, rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy roadsides, meadows, prairies
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Kans.;Okla.;Tex.;ne Mexico.
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name=Sisyrinchium ensigerum
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sisyrinchium amoenum;Sisyrinchium colubriferum
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy roadsides, meadows, prairies
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Kans.;Okla.;Tex.;ne Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1901
|special status=
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|genus=Sisyrinchium
|species=Sisyrinchium ensigerum
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