[pbs] Blue Iris needs ID
Jane McGary
janemcgary at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 7 22:03:33 EDT 2006
I may be quite wrong about this, but I think the only iris native to the
area mentioned is Iris missouriensis, which comes in various shades of
blue-lavender. The habitat Joe described is typical of this widespread
species of the intermountain West.
Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA
Joe wrote:
>I was in New Mexico recently and found some lovely iris plants (native I
>guess) near Las Vegas. The area is quite a desert, but on the road out of
>town (Hwy 104, to the east of town) I found a lot of irises growing. They
>were really pretty, pale-blue to white-blue.
>
>They grew in clumps and when I dug down I could see they were bulb-type
>irises. They grew alongside the road where water would collect from rains
>and snow melt. I didn't see them anywhere else in New Mexico.
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