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Yellow Iris
Iris pseudacorus
Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet pseudacorus means "false acorus", referring to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus (sweet flag), as they have a prominently veined mid-rib and sword-like shape. However, the two plants are not closely related.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.566
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.17
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.146
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.33
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.165
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Iris pseudacorus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47779.