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Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species [1] with showy flowers.As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.
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The iris consists of two layers: the front pigmented fibrovascular layer known as a stroma and, behind the stroma, pigmented epithelial cells.. The stroma is connected to a sphincter muscle (sphincter pupillae), which contracts the pupil in a circular motion, and a set of dilator muscles (dilator pupillae), which pull the iris radially to enlarge the pupil, pulling it in folds.
Section Iris. Iris adriatica Trinajstic ex Mitic; Iris albertii Reg. Iris albicans – white cemetery iris, white flag iris; Iris alexeenkoi Grossh.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Iris (/ ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; EYE-riss; Ancient Greek: Ἶρις, romanized: Îris, lit. 'rainbow,' [2] [3] Ancient Greek:) is a daughter of the gods Thaumas and Electra, [4] the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, a servant to the Olympians and especially Queen Hera.
The founding of the AIS was prompted by the growing popularity of irises as garden plants in America, spurred in part by an award-winning exhibit of iris cultivars at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, in part by William Rickatson Dykes' landmark 1913 book The Genus Iris, and in part by a small flood of articles in popular magazines like Country Life.
Iris spuria, or blue flag, is a species of the genus Iris, part of the subgenus Limniris and the series Spuriae. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant, ...
Iris missouriensis is an erect herbaceous rhizomatous perennial, 20 to 40 centimetres (7 + 7 ⁄ 8 to 15 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) high, with leafless unbranched scapes (flowering stems) and linear basal leaves, 5 to 10 mm wide, similar in height to the scapes. The inflorescence usually consists of one or two flowers, exceptionally three or four.