Sisyrinchium fuscatum

Herbs, perennial, cespitose, yellowish green to olive green when dry, to 5.3 dm, not glaucous. Stems branched, with 1 node, 1–1.7 mm wide, glabrous, margins entire, similar in color and texture to stem body; internode (20–) 23–47 cm, longer than leaves, with 1–5 branches. Leaf-blades glabrous, bases becoming fibrous, persistent in tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels entire; outer 12–18 mm, 0.9 mm shorter to 1.7 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 2.1–4 mm; inner with keel straight, hyaline margins 0.2–0.4 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, ending at or to 0.5 mm proximal to green apex. Flowers: tepals blue to bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 7.9–11.6 mm, apex emarginate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules light to medium brown, ± globose, 2.9–4.3 mm; pedicel erect to ascending. Seeds globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1–1.5 mm, rugulose. 2n = 32.

Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat: Marshy areas, moist pine barrens
Elevation: 0–200 m

N.S., Ala., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Md., Mass., Miss., N.J., N.Y., N.C., S.C., Va.

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