Re: SPEC: versicolor?
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: SPEC: versicolor?
- From: d*@dynamicro.on.ca
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:12:07 -0500 (EST)
From: dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, celia storey wrote:
> From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
> Quick question to New Englanders: On a weekend visit to the family in Rhode
> Island, my cousins remembered finding what they called "blue swamp irises"
> or "blue flags" growing around the coves and inlets of Newport. They
> described "smallish" plants with beardless blooms, mostly blue-violet,
> veined violet and with a little yellow on the falls.
>
> I guessed they were talking about versicolors. Is this likely? Anyone know
> the wild irises of Newport, RI?
> celia s*@aristotle.net Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
There's anothr possibility. I virginica var shrevei is also native to
this area. (It's the northern virginica.)
--
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
cold edge of Zone 4 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
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