Iris bracteata
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Iris bracteata, Wats. Fig. 1971. Rudimentary lvs. brown, very rigid; produced lvs. 1 to few, much exceeding the St., 1-2 ft. long, one side green, the other glaucous, edge revolute: st. 1-headed, angled, 2-3 in. to 1 ft. long, sheathed with bracts 2-4 in. long: tube short, funnelform; outer segms. 2-3 in.; blade ovate, as long as the claw, pale yellow, veined with bluish purple; inner segms. shorter, erect, yellow; style-branches long, narrow. June. Discovered in 1884 by Thomas Howell, in Ore. G.F. 1:43 (adapted in Fig. 1971). G.C. III. 39:401; 52:338. G.M. 50:161.—Intro. 1888.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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