The smell of an iris is clean and sweet. It is not a heavy smell.
Some iris have hardly any smell. Some smell sweet and clean. Check garden catalogs if you want the more fragrant iris hybrids.
They DO smell but very faintly so you have to get very close to the center. They smell very sweet and pleasant.
May through August is the bloom time for wild blue iris ['Iris missouriensis']. This native of North American wetlands reaches a mature height of 1 - 3 feet [30.48 centimeters - 0.9144 meters]. Violet-blue flowers emerge from long, grass-like leaves. The roots give off a sweet smell that may be used to make perfumes and soaps more fragrant.
Blue iris has three pistols.
Eye color is based on the amount and type of pigments in the iris of the eye.
Blue Iris was born on January 21, 1947, in USA.
There are many different types of iris.I. sibirica Siberian irisI. versacolor or blue flag irisI. pseudacorus or yellow irisI. germanica or bearded irisI. fulva or Louisiana iris
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Like a blue violet.
No animals eat blue flag iris because it is toxic.
Iris siberica is a type of iris that came from eastern Europe including Siberia. Most of the flowers are blue but some are white.
Some irises love water above their crown. This includes Iris fulva (red flag or copper iris), I. laevigata (rabbit-ear iris), I. prismatica (cube-seed iris), I. pseudacorus (yellow flag), I. versicolor (blue flag), I. virginica (southern blue flag), and the Louisiana irises. Other iris just like wet soil such as Iris ensata, the Siberian irises, I. missouriensis, and I. setosa.