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Although
I. orientalis is said to
have been collected in
Yugoslavia
it does not appear to grow there naturally and it must be assumed that
this is either an error or refers to a naturalized or cultivated specimen.
Its distribution is mainly in
Turkey
, apparently not occurring farther east than
Kayseri in the centre of the country.
It is also recorded in the eastern
Aegean
Islands
of Samos and Lesbos, and there
is a small outlying area in north-eastern
Greece. Like several of the Spuria species it is primarily a plant of saline
soils, often seen growing in a narrow band along the edges of irrigation
channels or on marshy ground, usually at low altitudes of about l50-1030
metres. In the
garden it is an easily grown and free flowering species requiring only a
reasonably sunny position.
Text
taken from The Iris by Brian
Mathew, reprinted 1989, pages 114-115.
Pictures courtesy of Nancy Price and Dave Silverberg.
Pictures
were taken at a public Park & Ride on
Barbur Blvd
in Portland,
Oregon
. Note in one of the distant
pictures that the dark foliaged Plum trees are shading several of the
spuria plantings. Because of
the difference in the amount of sunlight being received, the shaded
plantings are not growing as well as the other plantings. |
