Re: Re: Iris missouriensis
- Subject: Re: Re: Iris missouriensis
- From: R* B*
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:30:00 -0600
Gerry,
This seems a bit too small to be I. missouriensis, but just the right size for Sisyrinchium (blue-eyed grass). Sisyrinchium is a member of the iris family and
does resemble a minature iris.
Rodney
> Both times there were
> carpets of small (around 1/2" tall, no more than 5" tall--for those
> of you in the real world, that's something like 1 cm. bloom, 8 cm.
> tall) purple flowers covering large areas of the flatlands. On close
> inspection they looked like the only iris I knew (beardeds, but I
> am not suggesting these had beards). I don't remember the altitude,
> but it might have been near 10,000', near or above the timberline.
> BTW, these trips were done through one of the original Marlboro cowboys.
>
> Were these altitude-dwarfed I. missouriensis, or is this even within
> normal size variability?
>
> Gerry, loving the start of Spring
> --
> g*@mediaone.net
> Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
> Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
> in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
> my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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