'Stinking Iris' or 'Coral Iris' or 'Gladdon Iris' or 'Stinking Gladwyn' or 'Gladwin Sword Iris' or 'Roast Beef Plant' (EYE-ris: )
Lilac to soft purple colored flowers with darker veins produced in late spring, with a long blooming period for an Iris. The flowers are produced just short of the top of the long, evergreen, sword shaped leaves that grow 1.5 to 2.5 feet tall. After flowering green seed pods form that later in the year open up to show off attractive bright orange red 'berries' The leaves are cut for fresh flower arrangements and the fruiting stalks are used as a showy dry flower arrangement with the showy berries. Grow in part shade to full sun but best with some protection from the hot afternoon sun in moister retentive soils. Clump forming plants that will in a few years grow into a thick stand.
Zones7-10. Native from northern Africa & southwestern Europe and naturalized over much of Europe and parts of the US.
50 seeds.
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