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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 is the Sorceress of Illusion. She can create illusions in all of the five senses, including illusions of silence and invisibility, and hold them in place with minimal effort. Her illusion can exist a short way into the non-magical realm. Iris possesses a devious and keen intellect. She is a Queen of Xanth by her marriage to Trent.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Snake's-head iris Hermodactylus tuberosus * Bearded iris Iris germanica * Siberian iris Iris sibirica * Yellow iris Iris pseudacorus: Purple iris Iris versicolor * Japanese iris Iris ensata * Blue iris Iris spuria * Turkish iris Iris orientalis * Stinking iris Iris foetidissima: English iris Iris latifolia * Spanish iris Iris xiphium * Bugle ...
Of all the characters in the series, Jason is the one who struggles the most with the differences between the Greek and Roman perspectives. When the Argo II is stuck in North Africa, he must choose one identity or the other; he decides to consider himself a Greek, despite his parentage, and is subsequently unable to command a legion of Roman ...