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Fam.: Iridaceae / Iris Fam.  

Genus:  Iris  L.
 

Authors:
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Iris:   rainbow
 

Some of the Iris, which today have a species name as e.g. Iris germanica, Iris sambucina, or Iris squalens are no natural plants, but have been bred by monks or castle gardeners already in the middle ages, because in those times Iris were assumed to be magical plants which are able to hold enimies off.
But also artificially grown hybrids of newer origin are already rather wide-spread, and in some cases even ran wild or are found as last remainders of abandoned gardens or wineyards on formerly cultivated land. This page shows some examples:

 

Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 16.5.2006
Fig. 1:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 16.5.2006
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 17.5.2020
Fig. 2:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 17.5.2020
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Fig. 3:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Fig. 4:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Fig. 5:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Fig. 6:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Fig. 7:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2019
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Fig. 8:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Fig. 9:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Fig. 10:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Fig. 11:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Lent A. Williamson' by E. B. Williamson 1918)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 18.5.2015
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Mannheim 22.7.2011
Fig. 12:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Loreley' by Goos and Koenemann 1909)
D Mannheim 22.7.2011
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Mannheim 17.5.2006
Fig. 13:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (Hybrid 'Loreley' by Goos and Koenemann 1909)
D Mannheim 17.5.2006
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Franconia Scheßlitz 18.5.2012
Fig. 14:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (cultiv., Hybrid 'Loreley' by Goos and Koenemann 1909)
D Franconia Scheßlitz 18.5.2012
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Franconia Scheßlitz 18.5.2012
Fig. 15:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (cultiv., Hybrid 'Loreley' by Goos and Koenemann 1909)
D Franconia Scheßlitz 18.5.2012
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, A Lechtal, Forchach 27.5.2007
Fig. 16:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (
undetermined hybrid, washed up by river Lech)
A Lechtal, Forchach 27.5.2007
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Mannheim 18.5.2010
Fig. 17:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (undetermined hybrid)
D Mannheim 18.5.2010
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Mannheim 18.5.2010
Fig. 18:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (undetermined hybrid)
D Mannheim 18.5.2010
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Pfalz, Landau 26.5.2012
Fig. 19:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (undetermined hybrid)
D Pfalz, Landau 26.5.2012
Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form, D Pfalz, Landau 26.5.2012
Fig. 20:  Iris cultivar / Cultivated Iris Form (undetermined hybrid)
D Pfalz, Landau 26.5.2012

 


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