Re: virginica in Canada

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Lovely, Sean. Terrific photos too.

El

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From: "Sean A. Zera" <z*@umich.edu>
To: <i*@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] virginica in Canada

And yet, just across the border, southern Michigan only has virginica,
no versicolor.

I've seen a double form of pseudacorus escaped around here, and have a
bearded iris (no flowers yet) I collected from state land in northern
Michigan far from obvious homes. This spring I found a clump of
siberica/sanguinea blooming at Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature
Preserve in Ontario (see attached photos). Apparently controlled burns
are to its liking.

Curiously, my lacustris clumps set quite a lot of seed of their own
accord this spring. I wonder if, in the wild, they have good seed set
under certain weather conditions that happen only once every so many
years.

Sean Z
Zone 5b
Ann Arbor, MI