Re: Iris missouriensis

 

Dear Dennis and Kathleen,
 
I have an Iris missouriensis plant grown from seed obtained from a seed exchange.  It does well in my sidewalk strip i.e. no pests, disease, blooms and, I hope, will give me some seed this year.  Gresham, Oregon, is winter wet and summer dry.  I water the strip weekly with a soaker hose.  Gresham is on the eastern edge of Portland, Oregon.
 
Years ago while returning from southern CA on I-5 I saw I. missouriensis growing in the shoulder of the road.  What was remarkable about the growing conditions is the the soil had to be compacted and was summer dry and hot.  Of course, my morphology skills aren’t the greatest so I could be wrong about the species along the shoulder.
 
Best to you, Joyce Miller
 
From: i*@yahoogroups.com
 
  Iris missouriensis grows so poorly in the Pacific Northwest that Jean Witt named a wide cross that did well in Seattle, and looked very like this species, 'Faux Mo’.
 
Kathleen
Pacific Northwest Coast
 
On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Dennis Kramb d*@badbear.com [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I'm curious, who here grows I. missouriensis outside of it's native range?  Does it grow & bloom well for you?  Where was your source material?

I've never been able to establish it from seed (they germinate but die before blooming), so maybe I should try plants next.
I once tried I. longipetala from seed, but it turned out to be a white Siberian.  That frustration got channeled into me making the SIGNA Species Database 15+ years ago.  :-D

Dennis in Cincinnati

 

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