1 Mohr NY Bio
- Subject: 1 Mohr NY Bio
- From: D*@prodigy.com (MR ROBERT R PRIES)
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 96 14:50:25 MST
With the hopeful opportunity of being proven wrong, i don't believe
there is any iris uniflora in the USA. I have seen the plants marked
iris uniflora at sevral South Carolina gardens and they are all
sanguinea. This resulted from seed widely distributed from
collections in China which were incorrectly labeled. No one seems to
want to admit they have the wrong plant. Another such iris in the
USA is Iris songarica, all of which are a bicolor Iris lactea, very
nice but not songarica. I know the seed supposedly came from
Rodionenko but things do get messed up. Another example. I was
recently show plants collected 100 miles from civilizations of the
Kamchatka peninsula. the two `wild' iris turned out to be Dorothy K
Williamson and Rose Queen. What a cajun iris was doing in the wild
that for north is a mystery but it still wasn't anything but dear DKW.
Bob Pries
