HIST: ps - yellow, & musings

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

Looking at Mike Lowe's comparison of 'small flowered yellows', it looks
most like VIRGINIA MOORE (1920) or maybe GOLD IMPERIAL (1924) in form
and color (hard to tell just from the photos), except for the beards,
which look orangish on all of the photos on website, but are the same
color as the petals on mine (clear yellow).  This one also has a lot of
conspicuous purple or brown dotting and veins on the outside of the buds
at the base of the petals that is also abundant on the insides of the
petals after the bloom opens, but not visible from the 'fall'
perspective shown in the photos.  There is a lovely irridescence on the
falls that I couldn't see outdoors, but is conspicuous in here next to
the computer.

One of the really nice things about trying to ID older irises is that I
am forced to really SEE the flower in all its complexity, something that
I often don't do with the known ones.  So even if I never find out what
it's name was way back when, I still get enormous enjoyment from it.

Would it be fun for listers to get together a collection of the old
weedy irises that are characteristic of their locale, then do some swaps
and compare weeds?  There aren't many that are on every homestead around
here, so it won't be hard to do in this region, but might be a major
challenge in more benign climates.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA


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