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Iris sibirica, commonly known as Siberian iris or Siberian flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial, from Europe (including France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and northern Turkey) and ...
The 28 chromosomal group contains Iris sanguinea, Iris sibirica and Iris typhifolia. [2] [8] The Morgan-Wood Medal has been awarded by the American Iris Society since 1951. It honours the work of F. Cleveland Morgan (1882-1962) and Ira E. Wood (1903-1977). It is given to those Siberian irises judged to be the best of the best in that year. [2] [9]
Iris sanguinea is thought to be easy to grow. [23] [19] It is sometimes described as "prolific", meaning it can be invasive when the conditions are optimal. [19] It will tolerate temperatures of −3.8 °C (25.2 °F) down to −34.4 °C (−29.9 °F). [11]
"Japanese iris" is also a catch-all term for the Japanese iris proper (hanashōbu), the blood iris (I. sanguinea, ayame) and the rabbit-ear iris (I. laevigata, kakitsubata). I. unguicularis is a late-winter-flowering species from Algeria, with sky-blue flowers with a yellow streak in the centre of each petal, produced from Winter to Spring.
The iris needs moisture during the growing season (in spring and early summer) to create best blooms. [2] [14] But they don't grow in the water. [14] Although they will tolerate occasional flooding. [2] They are best propagated by division, as growing from seed, takes at least 3 years to produce a flowering plant. [7]
"On the testing, the first result showed a 99.2% match. Since the DNA has two complementary strands, we went on and tested the other DNA strand, which game a perfect 100% match," Louhelainen told ...
The stem has 1 or 2 lateral, upright branches, [3] [11] [22] or pedicels, which are about 2 cm long. [6] The stem also has keeled, lanceolate, green, spathes (leaves of the flower bud) (or bracts). [8] [11] [12] These are 40–80 cm (16–31 in) long, [16] and have a membranous tip. [16] [17] [23] The upper cauline (on stem) leaves are shorter ...
A winter weather advisory was put in place late Sunday for many counties across the tri-state for potential winter weather threats. Overnight snow, freezing rain could make for icy roads Monday ...