Blue-eyed Grass

Finding a piece of sunshine underneath the trees, this Blue-eyed grass sends up the tiniest of flowers---it can be too easy to miss such a miniature beauty in summer's abundance.  

Blue-eyed Grass

This flower is very small...smaller than your pinkie finger nail.  Blue-eyed grass is not really a grass at all, it belongs in the Iris family.

This specimen was photographed at the Indiana Dunes, where it is not abundant.

Its delicate blue blossoms belong in a long lost prairie where, I can only imagine, a carpet of tiny blue stretches all the way to the horizon.