Re: SPEC?: Another Florida Iris
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- Subject: Re: SPEC?: Another Florida Iris
- From: R* B* <r*@hsc.unt.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:59:03 -0700 (MST)
Mark wrote:
>...The Iris has small leaves, and long thin red roots. The Daylily
>Hybridizer called it the "Red Root Iris" and said that it has white
flowers
>and stands about 12 " tall in bloom.
I vote for Sysyrinchium albidum. There is no red in the Louisiana
iris rhizomes or roots and this is too short to be hexagona.
Rodney Barton
rbarton@hsc.unt.edu
Hickory Creek, (North Central) Texas, USA
Zone 7/8, typical temp range 15 - 105 F (-9 - 41 C)
AIS, SIGNA, SPCNI, SLI, FWIS, Iris-L
North American Native Iris Web Page:
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
