Iris filifolia

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Read about Iris filifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Iris filifolia, Boiss., not Bunge (Xiphium filifolium, Klatt. X. tingitanum, Hook.). Slender and leafy, about 2 ft. high, bearing 1-2 bright violet-purple ns. 2-2 1/2 in. diam.: lvs about 1 ft., those of the non- flowering bulbs twice as long, weak, flexuous, convolute: outer segms. with a narrow claw expanding suddenly into a reflexed, suborbicular blade, bright yellow down the center; inner segms. erect, obovate-lanceolate, erose, notched. S. Spain and N. W. Afr. B.M. 5928; 5981.悠ntro. 1869. Hardy.


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