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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.
iris (usually irises, but iris can be the plural for multiple plants; in medical contexts irides is used, see § Irregular plurals from Latin and Greek below) series, species (and other words in -ies, from the Latin fifth declension) [The word specie refers only to money, coins, from the Latin ablative singular form in the phrase in specie. It ...
Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword [2]) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). [3] Gladiolus italicus, Behbahan, Iran. It is sometimes called the 'sword lily', but is usually called by its generic name (plural gladioli). [4]
Iris flavescens Delile – lemonyellow iris (= I. variegata?) Iris furcata Bieb. – forked iris; Iris × germanica L. – German bearded iris (includes I. × barbata) Iris × germanica nothovar. florentina Dykes; Iris glaucescens Bunge; Iris griffithii Baker; Iris hellenica Dionysios Mermygkas, Kit Tan & Artemios Yannitsaros; Iris imbricata Lindl.
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 ...
Learn about planting iris rhizomes and growing iris flowers. We explain how to care for irises including bearded irises, and their soil, water, sun needs.
Crocus (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ə s /; plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of seasonal flowering plants in the family Iridaceae (iris family) comprising about 100 species of perennials growing from corms. They are low growing plants, whose flower stems remain underground, that bear relatively large white, yellow, orange or purple flowers and then ...
Iris, a genus of flowering plants; Iris or IRIS may also refer to: Arts and media. Fictional entities Iris (American Horror Story), an American Horror Story ...