Yellow flag
Iris pseudacorus
In Dutch: Gele lis
Water & marginal plantsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.4 to 1.2 m
- Spread
- 1 to 1.5 m per clump
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Wet and rich in nutrients, or shallow water
- Water
- Plenty: its base can stand in water
- Maintenance
- Low: remove dead leaves in autumn
- Flowers
- May to July, yellow
- For bees
- Little: some nectar and pollen, May to July
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mildly: especially the rhizome
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €3.29 to €4.99 each, in a small nursery pot
- Price, grown
- About €9.75 to €9.99 each, in a large pot or pond basket
Through the year
- Leaf
- March to November
- Flower
- May to July
- Fruit
- July to October