Iris sibirica
Siberian iris (Iris sibirica )
The Siberian iris (Iris sibirica ), also meadows iris called, is a plant belonging to the family of Iris Family ( Iridaceae ). It is used as an ornamental plant.
Description
The Siberian iris is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 50 to 120 centimeters. It forms a compact, covered with remains of old leaves rhizomes with a diameter of 0.9 to 1.2 cm as outlasting from that branch and thus often form large clumps from. The upright, simple or up to three -branched stems are round and hollow. The two lines arranged, riding on either side dark green, at their base a little pink leaves are shorter than the stem, 25 to 80 centimeters long and 0.4 to 0.9 inches wide.
The inflorescences contain two to five flowers. In its heyday, the narrow up to 4 cm wide, bracts are brown and papery. The flower stems are different lengths, the earliest only 1 cm to and the latest blooming up to 15 cm long. The threefold, hermaphroditic flowers do not smell and have a diameter of 6 to 7 centimeters on. The " hanging leaves " are blue to blue-violet colored and 3 to 6 inches long. Your board has a white, strongly veined spot. You narrows suddenly into the nail. This is brighter and dunkelgeadert. The " Domblätter " are veined darker purple. It's just a circle with three stamens present. Pollination is by larger insects.
The flowering period extends from May to June.
The three -edged, smooth capsule fruits are 3 to 4.5 × 1 to 1.3 cm in size and open only in the upper quarter to one-third. The seeds are in each of the three fruit trays in two rows. The dark brown seeds are D-shaped, flattened, 5 × 3 mm in size.
The chromosome number is 2n = 28
Occurrence
The Siberian iris is in the temperate warm to temperate Europe and western Siberia to the Altai before. It grows in marshy Au and glades. In the east, the United States and Southeast Canada Iris sibirica is naturalized.
System
The species name Iris sibirica was first published in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, 1, 39.
Iris sibirica L. belongs to the Section: Limniris in the subgenus Limniris within the genus Iris.
Use
The Siberian iris is widely used as an ornamental plant for riverbanks, discounts, and natural gardens. It is in culture at least since 1594. There are numerous varieties (selection):
- ' Albiflora ': The flowers are white and have occasionally a blue veining.
- ' Gull ': The flowers are off-white.
- ' Superba ': The variety is early flowering.
Tetraploid forms with horizontal hanging leaves and larger flowers have been around since 1960.
Others
On 22 October 2009, the Siberian iris was elected to the flower of the year 2010.
Swell
- Norlan C. Henderson: Iris in the Flora of North America, Volume 26, 2002, p 382: Iris sibirica - Online. ( Description section )