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Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet pseudacorus means "false acorus", referring to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus (sweet flag), as they have a prominently ...
Iris/Arcus – The goddess of rainbows, who administers a network of rainbows used by demigods and Olympians to communicate remotely something that is known as Iris Messaging. It's revealed that she doesn't actually handle much of the Iris Messaging system personally, instead delegating it to her cloud nymph assistant Fleecy.
Flowering yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus) at a treatment pond. In water purification, yellow iris (I. pseudacorus) is often used. The roots are usually planted in a substrate (e.g. lava-stone) in a reedbed-setup. The roots then improve water quality by consuming nutrient pollutants, such as from agricultural runoff. This highly aggressive grower ...
M28 Iris pseudacorus - Filipendula ulmaria mire Filipendulo-Iridetum pseudacori Adam 1976 emend. M29 Hypericum elodes - Potamogeton polygonifolius soakaway Hyperico-Potametum polygonifolii (Allorge 1921) Braun-Blanquet & Tüxen 1952; M30 Related vegetation of seasonally-inundated habitats Hydrocotyla-Baldellion Tüxen & Dierssen 1972
Iris laevigata Fisch – Rabbitear iris, shallow-flowered iris, kakitsubata (Japanese) Iris maackii Maxim. Iris pseudacorus L. – Yellow iris, yellow flag; Iris versicolor L. – Larger blue flag, harlequin blueflag; Iris virginica L. – Virginia iris; Series Longipetalae (Rocky Mountain or long-petaled iris) Iris longipetala Herb. – (Coast ...
Yellow Iris pseudacorus flowers on a blue field of water. The heraldist François Velde is known to have expressed the same opinion: [8] However, a hypothesis ventured in the 17th c. sounds very plausible to me. One species of wild iris, the Iris pseudacorus, yellow flag in English, is yellow and grows in marshes (cf. the azure field, for water ...
Iridaceae (/ ɪ r ɪ ˈ d eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /) is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises.It has a nearly global distribution, with 69 accepted genera with a total of c. 2500 species.
Flag iris typically refers to several species of iris plant: Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag iris; Iris versicolor, the larger blue flag iris; Iris prismatica, ...