Re: RE: OT Iris on the Federal list

HI,

Actually in Minnesota and Michigan too.  It is the state flower in Michigan
and has been proposed for the same in Wisconsin.

Wonder how I could get a piece of it.  Part of one write up states it does
not grow well from seed.

Hmmm?

Char
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DWiris@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: OT Iris on the Federal list


> Hi Char,
>
> I haven't looked at the references others have given, but I know I.
lacustris
> up close and personal.  Several years ago we drove through the upper part
of
> lower Michigan and stopped at a little roadside park near Alpena.  Growing
in
> the parking area and under picnic table was I. lacustris.  We couldn't
believe
> that the state would do that knowing the iris was endangered.  Many years
> earlier, before it was declared endangered, we had found it growing along
the
> eastern shore of Lake Michigan and brought home a piece.  It was a
lavender form
> and looked like a smaller version of I. cristata. It grew well for several
> years and then disappeared.  We also purchased a rare white form from a
nursery
> in Massachusetts, but that one didn't survive long at all.  Apparently I.
> lacustris must also grow in parts of Wisconsin near Lake Michigan.
>
> Dorothy Willott
>
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