Iris sanguinea Propagate often weeping mound

often weeping mound

shrugging off drought and heat where softer perennials sulk

most at home in deep

humusy ground their parents keep along streams and in swampy hammocks

" for the paired styles at the heart of each small bloom

Iris sanguinea Propagate often weeping moundThere is a small lie in the name. Sanguinea means blood, and yet the iris in front of you is blue, or blue running toward violet, with only a wine dark deepening in the falls to argue the case. The botanists felt the strain too: Carl Thunberg first tried to file the plant as Iris orientalis in 1794, found that name already taken, and the species waited until 1813 for the one carried since. The Japanese never bothered with Latin. To them the flower is