Iris ruthenica
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Iris ruthenica. Ker. Lvs. linear, in crowded tufts, 6 in. long at flowering-time, becoming 12 in. lone: st. slender, 1-8 in. long, but often obsolete; 1-headed: pedicel ¼ -2 in. long: tube twice as long as the ovary; outer segms. with an oblong blade rather shorter than the claw, lilac, veined and dotted with bluish purple on a whitish ground near the center and lower part of the blade; inner segms. lanceolate, with narrow claws, deep purple-violet. April, May. China, Siberia and Cent. Asia. B.M. 1123, 1393. Gn. 50, p. 187. G.W. 15:132.—Violet-scented.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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