Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Iris germanica

Flower and leaves. Photographer Mike Sim, Canberra, ACT

Flowers. Photographer Mike Sim, Canberra

Plantts. Photographer Christine, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plants. Photographer Mike Sim, Canberra

Common name

Tall Bearded Iris, German Iris

Family

Iridaceae

Where found

Urban bushland, woodland, grassy areas, near old habitations, roadsides, wasteland, and moist sites. Tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Introduced evergreen perennial herb to 1.2 m high. Clump-forming. Fleshy rhizomes at the soil surface 3–5 cm diameter. Leaves in fan-shaped clusters at the base of the plant, 30–50 cm long, 25–40 mm wide, sword shaped, glaucous, tips pointed. Flowers white, blue, violet, yellow or multicoloured, funnel-shaped, the tube about 20 mm long, with 6 'petals' 60–80 mm long, outer 'petals curved down, inner 'petals' erect or curved upwards. Flowers in two to four condensed 2–5-flowered clusters. Flowering: September–October

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Iris~germanica  (accessed 21 January, 2021)