Pacific Coast Irises - Iris munzii

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	Beauty of It All Our Native Irises Pacific Coast Our Native Irises: Pacific Coast Irises Iris munzii: Munz's Iris Munz’s Iris is endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada foothills in Tulare County, California. Munz’s iris displaying a typical lavender color with a narrow yellow signal. The Munz’s iris to the lower left is a very pale lavender, once again displaying the variation in color forms that the Pacific coast irises display. Photo courtesy Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris. Range map of Iris munzii in California. Courtesy of the USDA PLANTS Database. *Iris munzii* flowers are pale blue to lavender to purple. The sepals are moderately upright and then arching downward with prominent deep yellow, blue to purple to violet veins. The petals are upright and slightly spreading, shorter and narrower than the sepals, similar in coloration. The inflorescence has two to four flowers. The flowering stalk is much longer than the attending leaves. The leaves are green to grayish green upright, slightly reflexed, and basal with a green base, from branching rhizomes with fibrous roots occurring in large clumps. This beautiful specimen of Munz’s iris has sepals that are lavender along the outer edges with an unusual narrow band of blue in the center leading to the yellow signal. Notice how the veins change color from a light violet to a dark blue as they merge towards the yellow signal. Photo by Carol Zeigler. This Munz’s iris displays a light violet color form with a prominent white signal and darker violet veins. Photo courtesy Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris. A small colony of Munz’s iris in a sunny opening in an oak woodland. Photo courtesy Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris. *Iris munzii* is found growing in shady openings in blue oak woodlands. Conservation Concern *Iris munzii* is ranked as imperiled (G2): 6 to 20 populations or 1,000 to 3,000 individuals or 2,000 to 10,000 acres. For More Information *PLANTS Profile - Iris munzii, Munz's Iris*
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