Iris caucasica (also known as Caucasian iris)[2][3] is a species of plant in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Scorpiris. Pronounced as 'kaw-KAS-ee-kuh'.[4]
It is a bulbous perennial.
It was described in 1808 by Georg Hoffman in Commentat. Soc. Phys.-Med. Univ. Litt. Caes. Mosq.[5]
It was once confused with Iris orchioides, but Iris caucasica is a smaller plant, with sessile flowers. Also it has leaves that have white margins.[6]
Iris caucasica is an accepted name by the Royal Horticultural Society.[2]
^"Iris caucasica Hoffm". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
^ ab"Iris caucasica". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
^Robert Sweet, Edwin Dalton Smith (1904)The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental & Curious Hardy Herbaceous Plants (1829), p. 255, at Google Books
^"Iris caucasica 'Caucasica Kharput'". davesgarden.com. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^"Iris caucasica Hoffm". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
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