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Butterfly Iris

Dietes iridioides

Description:

D. iridioides has white flowers marked with yellow and violet, with six free tepals that are not joined into a tube at their bases. These flowers last only one day. The seedpods of the plant often bend the stalks down to the ground where they have a better chance of propagating new plants.

Habitat:

Hotel landscape.

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gatorfellows

Daphne, Alabama, USA

Spotted on Apr 25, 2013
Submitted on May 5, 2013

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