Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus, Feileastram
Photographs: Co. Cork

Yellow Iris / Yellow Flag
Iris pseudacorus
Feileastram
Family: Iridaceae

Flowering time: May-July. Perennial. Native.

Yellow flowers with purple veins on strong, erect stems, the seed pods splitting to reveal brown seeds. Deciduous long sword-shaped leaves grow from underground rhizomes and can spread widely. Height: 40-150 cm.

Very common on marshy ground, wet fields and in and beside streams and ponds throughout Ireland

Related:Stinking Iris, I. foetidissima. Purple flowers, evergreen leaves

Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus, Feileastram

Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus, Feileastram
Yellow Flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus, Feileastram

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