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'''''Iris kolpakowskiana''''' ('''dwarf iris'''<ref name=plantexpect>{{cite web|title=Dwarf Iris|date=12 October 2008|url=http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/DwarfIris.html |publisher=theplantexpert.com|accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref> or '''Danford iris''') is a species in the genus ''[[Iris (plant)|Iris]]''.
'''''Iris kolpakowskiana''''' ('''dwarf iris'''<ref name=plantexpect>{{cite web|title=Dwarf Iris|date=12 October 2008|url=http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/DwarfIris.html |publisher=theplantexpert.com|accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref> or '''Danford iris''') is a species in the genus ''[[Iris (plant)|Iris]]''.

First described in the Botanical Magazine No6489 (1880).<ref name=EuropeanFlora>Walters, Stuart Max (Editor){{Google books|1dd5M-ToXAcC|European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated|page=354}}</ref>

Leaves are similar to the iris of the genus 'Scorpiris', flowers in late winter
flowers pale lilac to pale purple, falls are dark reddish purple with yellow-orange ridge.
<ref name=EuropeanFlora/>


Iris kolpakowskiana is from the Tien Shan Mountains, Turkestan where it is found on hillsides in wet sticky clay that dries out in summer. It has three or four narrow channeled leaves and pale lilac-blue flowers with a deep reddish-purple blade to the falls and an orange-yellow center ridge. Note from Peter Taggart: "The forms I have and have grown have distinctive bulbs with a longer neck than other reticulata Iris (tear drop shaped). The tunics are ridged vertically and the inner tunics are yellowish."<ref>{{cite web|title=Reticulata Irises |date=11 May 2014|url=http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ReticulataIrises| publisher=www.pacificbulbsociety.org | accessdate=14 July 2014}}</ref>
Iris kolpakowskiana is from the Tien Shan Mountains, Turkestan where it is found on hillsides in wet sticky clay that dries out in summer. It has three or four narrow channeled leaves and pale lilac-blue flowers with a deep reddish-purple blade to the falls and an orange-yellow center ridge. Note from Peter Taggart: "The forms I have and have grown have distinctive bulbs with a longer neck than other reticulata Iris (tear drop shaped). The tunics are ridged vertically and the inner tunics are yellowish."<ref>{{cite web|title=Reticulata Irises |date=11 May 2014|url=http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/ReticulataIrises| publisher=www.pacificbulbsociety.org | accessdate=14 July 2014}}</ref>

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Iris kolpakowskiana
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Iris kolpakowskiana
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Iris kolpakowskiana

Iris kolpakowskiana (dwarf iris[1] or Danford iris) is a species in the genus Iris.

First described in the Botanical Magazine No6489 (1880).[2]

Leaves are similar to the iris of the genus 'Scorpiris', flowers in late winter flowers pale lilac to pale purple, falls are dark reddish purple with yellow-orange ridge. [2]

Iris kolpakowskiana is from the Tien Shan Mountains, Turkestan where it is found on hillsides in wet sticky clay that dries out in summer. It has three or four narrow channeled leaves and pale lilac-blue flowers with a deep reddish-purple blade to the falls and an orange-yellow center ridge. Note from Peter Taggart: "The forms I have and have grown have distinctive bulbs with a longer neck than other reticulata Iris (tear drop shaped). The tunics are ridged vertically and the inner tunics are yellowish."[3]

It flowers in March.[4]


Native

•ASIA-TEMPERATE Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan

It was originally found is Turkestan.[4]

http://wiki.irises.org/bin/view/Spec/SpecKolpakowskiana

References

  1. ^ "Dwarf Iris". theplantexpert.com. 12 October 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b Walters, Stuart Max (Editor)European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated, p. 354, at Google Books
  3. ^ "Reticulata Irises". www.pacificbulbsociety.org. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  4. ^ a b Lynch, RichardThe Book of the Iris, p. 164, at Google Books

•Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). [= Iridodictyum kolpakowskianum (Regel) Rodion.]. •Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. •Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 177.


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