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Iris albicans – white cemetery iris, white flag iris; Iris alexeenkoi Grossh. Iris aphylla L. – stool iris, table iris, leafless iris (including I. nudicaulis) Iris aphylla subsp. hungarica (Waldst. & Kit.) Helgi ; Iris attica (Boiss. & Heldr.) Hayek; Iris benacensis A.Kern. ex Stapf; Iris bicapitata Colas; Iris croatica – Perunika I ...
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. A common name for some species is flags, while the plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as junos, particularly in horticulture. It is a popular garden flower.
Iris versicolor or Iris versicolour is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, [2] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, [3] [4] and in Great Britain and Ireland as purple iris. [5] It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern ...
An older common name (especially in the UK), was 'naked stalked purple and white iris', [8] or just 'naked stalked iris'. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 32 ] The Latin specific epithet aphylla refers to the Greek word for 'without leaf', [ 26 ] [ 47 ] This is due to the fact that the iris does not have any leaves during the winter period.
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The Hexagonae series name is derived from the first Louisiana iris species to inhabit the series, Iris hexagona. [1] The name "Louisiana iris" comes from the naturalist and artist John James Audubon. In the 1821, a Louisiana flag was painted by his assistant Joseph Mason, then Audubon added his pair of parula warblers. He then used the term ...
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 ...
Subgenus Iris is one subgenus of Iris. Iris as a plant was originally named by Carl Linnaeus in his book Systema Naturae (in 1735), with a great number of species being added into the genus. Including new ones that were found after the book's publication.