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Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus
Stout, medium to tall tufted, rhizomatous plant. Leaves long, sword shaped, 10 to 30 mm wide, with a conspicuous raised mid-rib, slightly grey-green. Flowers 4 to 12 yellow, 70 to 100 mm the broad oval falls, veined and dotted with green.
Freshwater margins.
June to August.
Perennial.
Quite common throughout Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 166 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Yellow Flag, Flag Iris, Yellow Iris
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Iridaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 304
- First record:
- 21/06/2001 (Jane McPhail;John Kramer)
- Last record:
- 24/08/2023 (O'Brien, Helen)
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