I. missouriensis

RAINACRE (love your name) said:

Glad to see someone working with I. missouriensis. It was the wild iris of my
Montana yourth. It grew very well in pastures forming clumps about a foot in
diameter. The seed pods made wonderful "rattlesnake rattles." The form I grew
up with was very pale with stippled veins and was virtually the same for
hundreds of square miles. Only in my college years did I find a population
which varied from white through lavender and shades of blue. This group was
growing near Larmie, Wyoming."

Missouriensis seems to be quite variable around here, possibly because the 
Santa Fe area is at a jucture of mountains, plains, and high desert, and the 
number and quality of microclimates is staggering!  There is even rumored to 
be a population of yellow I. missouriensis somewhere on Johnson Mesa, and one 
of these days if I can get somebody to point me in the direction of Johnson 
Mesa, I'll go looking for them.

Barb in Santa Fe, the crossroads of cultures and iris.
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