Iris macrosiphon is a flowering plant of the iris family that occurs in sunny grasslands, meadows, and open woodlands.
The flower is variable, golden yellow to cream or pale lavender to deep blue-purple, generally with darker veins. The leaves are blue-green. The flower stems are usually short (less than 25 cm) when in the sun and bear 2 flowers. It blooms in spring.
Iris is a genus of flowering plants with showy flowers which takes its name from the Latin word for rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species as well as countless garden cultivars.
While Iris is the scientific name for the genus, 'iris' is also very widely used as a common name and refers to all all Iris as well as several closely-related genera.
Iris unguicularis (or stylosa) is a remarkable winter flowering species from Algeria, with sky-blue flowers blotched with yellow, produced (in the Northern Hemisphere) at irregular intervals from November to March, the bleakest period of the year.
The Douglas Iris, Iris douglasiana, is a common wildflower of the coasts of California and southern Oregon.
Iris foetidissima, the Fetid Iris, gladdon or roastbeef plant, the Xyris or stinking gladdon of Gerard, is a native of England south of Durham and also of Ireland, southern Europe and North Africa.
Iris germanica of central Europe, "the most common purple Fleur de Luce" of Ray, is the large common blue iris of gardens, the bearded iris or fleur de luce and probably the Illyrian iris of the ancients.
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