Iris pseudacorus (lutea)
Yellow Flag aka Yellow Iris, Water Flag
3-9
Southern Europe
and
Western Asia
Care and Culture of Iris
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Iris for the Home Landscape
Upright clump - Beardless
Up to 5 feet tall and 24 inches wide.
Flowers light yellow, the falls are 1½ inches or less wide the standards are narrow, ¼-½ inch long, erect. There is a brown blotch on the falls.
May-June
Sword-shaped leaves, 1 inch wide, 3-5 feet long and usually glaucous.
Can be grown in moist soil on the edge of a stream or pond.
var.
bastardii
- 4 feet tall with creamy yellow flowers.
'Golden Queen' - Larger, yellow flowers.
'Variegata' - Leaves striped with pale yellow markings.
An Iris for wet places
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