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Iris macrosiphon

Photo by misako
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Field Notes

Description:

These are irises in my garden. It is a low growing plant and produces these beautiful blossoms. It is also native to California.

Habitat:

Urban house flower garden.

Notes:

Iris macrosiphon (Bowltube Iris) is a flowering plant in the iris family, endemic to California in the Cascade Range Foothills, north and central Sierra Nevada Foothills, Inner North Coast Ranges, and San Francisco Bay Area, where it occurs in sunny grasslands, meadows, and open woodlands.
The leaves are very slender, 2.5-5 mm wide, and blue-green in color. The flower is variable, golden yellow to cream or pale lavender to deep blue-purple, generally with darker veins. The flower stems are usually short (less than 25 cm) when in the sun and bear 2 flowers. It blooms in spring.
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Comments (4)

thank you Dilek Cifci!
Wow Misako! Do you ever separate the rhyzomes? I'd love to have some of these in my garden.

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