Re: Iris persica

 

A Guide to Species Irises lists the habitat of I. persica as "dry stony hills, oak and pine scrubland, 600-1350 m." Presumably if an heirloom population has survived in a neglected garden somewhere, that would be where to look (or whatever passes for that habitat in North Carolina). It may be that high rainfall or extreme cold finally did them in, though.


North Carolina is also supposed to be a good place to find heirloom Gladiolus dalenii hybrids persisting uncultivated.

Sean Z
Zone 6a
SE Michigan, where persica presumably can't be grown

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