Blue Flag
Blue Flag
Little Beartrack Lake, BWCAW
Photo courtesy Richard W. Swanson ...
Blue flag is an emersed plant. These elegant natives are medium size plants, growing to four feet tall.
Iris versicolor (Iridaceae) - Blue Flag and other irises have been used by Native Americans and other cultures for medicines, food, perfume ("orris root"), and dyes. There is also a yellow version, called "yellow flag".
Additional Comments: Blue Flag was a common Native American remedy, and was once included in the United States Pharmacopoeia. It was used in the treatment of dropsy.
Blue Flag Iris
Very robust, dramatic display of boldly veined, swordlike leaves with large, violet-blue flowers accented by whitish markings at the base of the sepals.
Blue Flag
Iridaceae
Iris versicolor or Blue Flag, is a native of Eastern Canada and the northern United States found in swamps and in lowlands. It grows 2-3 foot with 1-inch sword-shaped leaves. The rhizomes are the commercial source of Iridin.
Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor):Blue flag is a beautiful native iris that grows in damp areas in the eastern United States. Lavender-blue flowers on 3-foot stems during May and June.
The blue flag is the provincial flower of Quebec, having replaced the Madonna lily which is not native to the province.[2]
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---Description---Blue Flag Rhizome has annual joints, 2 or more inches long, about 3/4 inch in diameter, cylindrical in the lower half, becoming compressed towards the crown, where the cup-shaped stem-scar is seen, when dry, and numerous rings, ...
Western Blue Flag [English]: Iris missouriensis
Western Blue Flag [English]: Iris missouriensis f. angustispatha
Western Blue Iris [English]: Iris missouriensis
Western Blue Virgins Bower [English]: Clematis occidentalis ...
It prefers to lay its eggs in Siberian irises and Iris versicolor; the large blue flag that is native to the northeastern quadrant of the United States.
Iris versicolor (Blue Flag, Harlequin Blueflag)
Iris virginica (Virginia iris, Southern Blue Flag)
Libertia grandiflora
Libertia peregrinans
Moraea grandiflora (Cape Tulip)
Moraea polystachya
Neomarica northiana (North's False Flag, Apostle Plant) ...
It's other names include Dogtongues alluding to the leaves, Blue Flag (coopting a name usually reserved for water irises), & Wampee, from an Algonquin word meaning "Dawn" but homonimous for whites with "swampy.
In the wet areas, along the streams and swales, can be seen the blue flag iris with its lime green lance shaped leaves and purple iris flower. This plant is the wild variety of the highly popular garden iris.
The many species of wild iris are most common in temperate and subarctic regions of North America, where they are often called flags, or blue flags.
Sagittaria - Arrowheads
Iris versicolor - Blue Flag
Cyperus isocladus - Dwarf Papyrus
Ruellia brittoniana - Water Blue Bells
Juncus effusus - Cork Screw Rush
Lotus
Water Lilies ...
4. Iris spp. (iris or blue flag, iris family). These commonly grown garden perennials also occur wild in wet ...
Iris virginica
(Southern blue flag) Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones:
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 See also: Flag, Orchid, Blackberry Lily, Joe-Pye Weed, Black-eyed Susan
  
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