Purple Iris - Iris versicolor
Medium to tall, tufted, rhizomatous plant - slightly branched. Leaves sword shaped, 8 to 25 mm wide, the lower ones often red tinged at the base, without a raised midrib. Flowers 2 to 9, lilac-purple, 70 to 90 mm, the base of the falls yellowish.
Lake shores and water margins.
Flowers June to August.
Perennial.
Widespread but infrequent as a wild flower in Britain.
Uncommon as a wild flower in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
23 June 2015
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
23 June 2015
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
23 June 2015
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
23 June 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Purple Water Flag, Purple Iris
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Iridaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 23/06/2015 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 09/06/2019 (Bell, Melinda)
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