Iris x germanica
Iris x germanica
Göksüsen
Plant 60-120 cm. Leaves 2.5-4.5 cm broad, ± straight, greyish-green, developing in autumn and overwintering. Stem branched, with 4-5 flowers, branches 5-14 cm. Bracts and bracteoles navicular, not markedly inflated, often flushed purple. Flowers usually lavender, violet or bluish with brownish veining on lower part of segments, occasionally whitish or creamy with darker veining; beard yellow; falls obovate, cuneate at base, 8-9 x 4-5 cm; standards obovate or elliptic with a narrow claw at base, 8-9 x 4-5 cm; style branches 4-4.5 x 1.5 cm; with obtuse lobes 1-1.5 x0.6-1 cm. Capsule ellipsoid, 3-5 cm. Fl. 4-5. Dryish rocky places and fields, usually in and around cultivated areas or cemeteries, 50-600 m.
I. germanica is widely distributed in Europe and western Asia as well as various other countries throughout the world and is normally associated with areas of habitation. It has been suggested that it is one of a number of hybrids of unknown and fairly ancient origin. Certainly it is of low fertility and appears never to occur in truly wild situations.
