■ (SPEC) Iris albomarginata R. C. Foster

1936, Botanical author R. C. Foster

_Iris albomarginata_ R. C. Foster (Robert C. Foster); Subgenus Scorpiris . Juno; 8-12" (20-30 cm); "Electric blue"-Brian Mathew, The Iris;

See below:

• * References
• * Chromosome counts
• * Synonyms
• * Variations
• * Hybrids
• * Distribution and Cultivation

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References:

See More photos in wild at INaturalistUK
This plant was first described by Boris Fedschenko in Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, ser. 2, iv. page 917. in 1904. But the name he chose, Iris coerulea, had been used by Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. xiii. 50 (1846) for a plant, which is a I. pumila hybrid, and therefore was renamed by Foster as Iris albomarginata in reference to the white margins of the leaves a characteristic of several of the species in the Juno section. Flor. USSR;
A Guide to Species Irises, their Identification and Cultivation, The Species Group of The British Iris Society, 1997, Cambridge;
R. C. Foster in Contrib. Gray Herb. n. s. No. cxiv. 42. (1936);

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Synonyms

Iris caerulea B. Fedtschenko.

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Chromosome counts

2n=50 Bochantseva 1966; 2n=20 (as Iris caerulea B. Fedtschenko) Bochantseva 1966. ----

Variations

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Hybrids

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Distribution and Cultivation

Distribution: Region:
Cultivation: seems to be the same as most bearded irises with perhaps a special emphasis on good drainage

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