| Habit | bulbous
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| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
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| Flower features: | ❀ | yellow |
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Iris reichenbachii, Heuffel. (synonyms I. bosniaca, Beck. I. balkana, Janka. I. reichenbachiana, Baker). Rhizome stout; tufts crowded: leaves 3-4 inches long, 1/4 -3/4 inch wide, increasing in size after flowering-time: stems 6-10 inches long, 1-headed, bearing 1-2 reduced leaves: spathes 1-2-flowered, 1 ½ -2 inches long; valves ventricose, green, or slightly scarious: flowers reddish brown-purple with bluish white beard, or yellow with orange beard; outer segments obovate, cuneate, 2 inches long, 1 inch broad; inner Begins, oblong-elliptical, emargmate, suddenly constricted to a canaliculate clawCH. Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bulgaria and MacedoniaCH. Resembles I. chamaeiris, but differs in the flattened, acutely keeled spathea and the thin texture of the flowers. The yellow-flowered forms are often slightly veined with purpleCH.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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