Blue-eyed grass
Scientific Name: (Sisyrinchium spp.)
Definition: There are a number of species of this late-spring and summer wildflower, and none of them has a blue eye. In fact, they have yellow eyes at the centers of their blue or violet petal-like flowers. The combination is perfect, a bright juxtaposition of delicate but opposite colors.

One way to know it is blue-eyed grass is the pointed (some call it "thorn-like") tip or point on each of the 6 "petals" of the ½ inch flower. Many single flowers bloom along each stem, which may be from 8 inches to 2 feet tall. Individual flowers do not live long.