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Iris fernaldii R.C.Foster  

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Family: Iridaceae
Fernald's iris
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Norlan C. Henderson in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Rhizomes many-branched, producing dense clumps, compact, slender, ca. 0.6 cm diam., base covered with remains of old leaves; roots fibrous. Stems simple, solid, 2-4 dm. Leaves: basal with blade gray-green, usually brilliantly colored basally, drying to unusual gray-green, veins fairly prominent, to 4 dm × 0.7-0.8 cm, often quite glaucous, margins not thickened; cauline 2-several, spreading, sheathing stem for about 1/2 length, foliaceous, blade not inflated. Inflorescence units 2-flowered; spathes opposite, connivent, often flushed red basally, broadly lanceolate, 5-9 cm × 6-11 mm, subequal. Flowers: perianth pale creamy yellow with gold or gray veins; floral tube funnelform, 3-6.2 cm, spreading apically to form wide throat; sepals horizontally spreading, claw with deep yellow median line, oblanceolate to spatulate, 4.5-7 × 1-2 cm, base gradually attenuate into broad claw; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 4.3-6 × 0.6-1.4 cm, base gradually attenuate into narrow claw; ovary elliptical, nearly circular in cross section, 1.5-2.3 cm; style 2.2-3 cm, crests divergent, linear to narrowly oblong, 1-1.7 cm; stigmas triangular, margins entire; pedicel 0.9-2.2 cm at anthesis. Capsules oblong, roundly trigonal, distinctly beaked, 2.5-3.5 cm. Seeds dark brown, wrinkled. 2n = 40. Flowering Apr--Jul. Mixed evergreen forest; Calif. Iris fernaldii hybridizes with I. douglasiana, I. innominata, and I. macrosiphon.

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