Family | IRIDACEAE |
Genus species | Iris humilis Georgi |
Synonyms | Iris dahurica Herb. ex Klatt |
Iris flavissima Pall. | |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | roots thick, leaves linear, 5-15cm, floral stems short, spathes 2-3, narrowly lanceolate, 1-2-flowered, apex acuminate, flowers 4-5cm, tube of perianth 2-4cm |
Size | 5-20cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division in late summer |
Territory |
Europe
Eastern Europe (East European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Khabarovsk , Primorye ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , Xinjiang ) Mongolia |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | IRIDACEAE
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