Common name:
Yellow iris
Family:
Scientific name:
Iris pseudacorus
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK, except the Scottish Highlands
Height:
Up to 150 cm
Habitat:
Streambanks, marshes, ponds, wet woodland
Flowers:
Up to 10 cm in diameter, with three drooping sepals, yellow with purple veins, and three smaller, obovate, fringed yellow petals. Flowers form in pairs or groups of three
Leaves:
Greyish-green, linear, up to 150 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, angled upwards
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
