Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Iris is a flowering plant with showy flowers that is sometimes confused with lily. The name iris comes from a Greek word for a rainbow and thus referring to a wide variety of colors among its diverse species. In Egypt, iris was regarded as a Greek Goddess of rainbow. Iris belongs to a quite different family from lily. Iris family has 200-300 members including wild iris. Iris plant is native to land north of the equator and widely distributed throughout the temperate zones. Iris habitats are considerably wide ranging from cold regions to grassy slopes, meadowlands and riverbanks of Europe, Middle East, Northern Africa, and Asia and across North America.

Irises are a perennial shrubs growing from creeping rhizomes or from bulbs in drier climate. Irises have long, erect and flowering stems, which may be simple or branched, solid or hollow and flattened or with a circular cross section. They have flat upright leaves with three brightly colored and drooping sepals and three inner petals, which stand upright in some of the species. Bulbous species have cylindrical basal leaves. Iris fruit is in the shape of a capsule that has numerous seeds. Irises are grown as ornamental plants in home or botanical gardens. Florence, Italy has the most famous and largest Iris garden and museum and holds most famous Iris Breeders competition every year.

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind

Pictures of Flowers Iris Pictures and Iris Kind