Sisyrinchium funereum E.P. Bicknell  
Family: Iridaceae
Funeral Mountain Blue-Eyed-Grass
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Anita F. Cholewa & Douglass M. Henderson+ in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs, perennial, cespitose, green to ashy olive when dry, to 7.6 dm, strongly glaucous; roots somewhat fleshy-thickened. Stems branched, with 1 node, 1-4 mm wide, glabrous, margins white-cartilaginous; internode 16-65 cm, longer than leaves, with 2-3 branches. Leaf blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels entire; outer 13.5-24 mm, 3 mm shorter to 1 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 5-6.5 mm; inner with keel evenly curved to straight, hyaline margins 0.6-1.1 mm wide, apex extending as 2 broadly rounded and erose lobes, ending at or slightly beyond green apex. Flowers: tepals pale blue to light bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 9-15 mm, apex truncate to occasionally rounded, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules beige, globose, 5-6 mm; pedicel erect to ascending. Seeds globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1.1-1.5 mm, slightly granular. 2n = 32. Flowering early spring. Moist, grassy areas along streams and springs where soil strongly alkaline; of conservation concern; 0--800 m; Calif., Nev. Sisyrinchium funereum is endemic to the Death Valley-Ash Meadows region.

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