Iris pumila
Botanical Name: Iris pumila (added by D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Botanical Synonyms:
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Iris pumila var. pumila (D. Kramb, 30-SEP-04)
Classification:
Eupogon, MDB (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Common Names:
Miniature dwarf bearded iris (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Chromosome Count:
2n=30, 32 (D. Kramb, 30-SEP-04)
General Description:
4"-6" (10-15cm) tall, with white, yellow, blue, purple, violet, or bicolored flowers, with yellow or blue beards (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Distinguishing Features:
Stems unbranched, less than 1 cm long from rhizome to base of the ovary; spathes keeled (Tom Waters, 18-DEC-10)
Correction: spathes rounded (Tom Waters, 06-MAR-14)
Preferred Habitat:
Sunny, well drained soil (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Hardiness:
Estimated Zone 2-8 (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
Native Range:
Eastern Europe, Western Russia (D. Kramb, 10-NOV-03)
South-Eastern Europe, Ukraine, European Russia, Caucasus, Western Siberia (Yu. Pirogov, 20-NOV-03 )
Yugoslavia, eastern Europe, Russia (D. Kramb, 30-SEP-04)
Malta (Anonymous, 21-MAR-07)
Status in the Wild:
N/A
Commercial Availability:
Specialist nurseries. Some MDB cultivars are pure I. pumila in ancestry and these may be found in the listings of commerical dwarf and median growers (Tom Waters, 18-DEC-10)
Sources Cited:
Info entered on 30-SEP-04 comes from the SIGNA Checklist of Iris Species. (D. Kramb, 30-SEP-04)
The Iris (Brian Mathew) (Tom Waters, 18-DEC-10)
Additional Comments:
N/A
Species Iris Group of North America
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