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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Sisyrinchium |
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S. bermudiana
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| Sisyrinchium bermudiana | |
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Sisyrinchium bermudiana, known as Bermudiana[citation needed] or, along with other members of the genus, as blue-eyed grass,[2] is a flower of the genus Sisyrinchium (of the iris family) that is native to the Atlantic archipelago, and British Overseas Territory, of Bermuda and the island of Ireland. The plant appears and blooms in the spring. It has been used as a totemic flower by Bermudians, and appears in art, jewellery, banknotes and elsewhere.[3]
Sisyrinchium bermudiana was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[4] The first described species in the genus Sisyrinchium, it is thus the type species. Linnaeus's specific epithet bermudiana was not an adjective (and thus does not have to agree in gender with Sisyrinchium) but a noun in apposition, derived from the earlier genus name Bermudiana.[5] He showed this by capitalizing the epithet, but modern practice is to use lower-case for all epithets.
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