Iris hookeri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Iris
- Species
- Iris hookeri
- Scientific Name
- Iris hookeri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Iris hookeri
Iris hookeri, commonly called the beach head iris, is a species of Iris. It is endemic to sea coasts and beaches in Maine, in the Northeastern United States and also eastern Canada.
It blooms in July.
It was first published by the English botanist George Penny in Hort. Brit. (edited by J.C.Loudon), edition 2 on page 591 in 1832, based on an earlier description by George Don.
The Latin specific epithet hookeri refers to the English botanist William Jackson Hooker.
It is found in Eastern Canada within the states of Québec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador.
It was verified by United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service on 4 April 2003, and as being an accepted name by the RHS.
...Iris hookeri in languages:
- English
- beach-head iris
- Estonian
- kanada iiris
- French
- iris de Hooker
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hermodactyloides
- Iris
- Iris anguifuga
- Iris binata
- Iris bracteata
- Iris brzhezitzky
- Iris bulleyana
- Iris bungei
- Iris caeciliae
- Iris calabra
- Iris cathayensis
- Iris chrysographes
- Iris clarkei
- Iris colchica
- Iris crocea
- Iris delavayi
- Iris dichotoma
- Iris domestica
- Iris douglasiana
- Iris farreri
- Iris fernaldii
- Iris foetidissima
- Iris giganticaerulea
- Iris gracilipes
- Iris graminea
- Iris grant-duffii
- Iris halophila
- Iris hartwegii
- Iris haussknechtii
- Iris hexagona
- Iris hookeri
- Iris kirkwoodiae
- Iris kobayashii
- Iris laevigata
- Iris loczyi
- Iris longipetala
- Iris longiscapa
- Iris ludwigii
- Iris maackii
- Iris macrosiphon
- Iris masiae
- Iris missouriensis
- Iris mzchetica
- Iris nantouensis
- Iris neoensata
- Iris neosetosa
- Iris neumayeri
- Iris notha
- Iris orientalis
- Iris orjenii
- Iris oxypetala
- Iris pallasii
- Iris pontica
- Iris psammocola
- Iris pseudonotha
- Iris qinghainica
- Iris reichenbachiana
- Iris rossii
- Iris ruthenica
- Iris sabina
- Iris sancti-cyri
- Iris savannarum
- Iris setosothungbergii
- Iris sinistra
- Iris sintenisii
- Iris spuria
- Iris tenuifolia
- Iris ventricosa
- Iris verna
- Iris versicolor
- Iris violipurpurea
- Iris xanthospuria
- Iris × flexicaulis
- Iris × fulvala
- Iris × hybrida
- Iris × nelsonii
- Iris × robusta
- Iris × sancti-cyrii
- Iris × thompsonii
- Iris × vinicolor
- Limniris
- Nepalensis
- Scorpiris
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