Irises: The Irises of Shadowood Part Deux, 1 by laurief

laurief wrote:
Here's "used to have 3 names, now has none". A friend received this as a leftover from a club sale and passed it along to me. It was marked "Great Lakes, Copper Lustre, or Wabash". It was explained that those three clumps had grown into each other in the contributor's garden, so it was unknown which of the three cultivars this rhizome would be.

No problem, I thought, since those three cultivars are decidedly different from each other. It would be easy to figure out which of the three it was when it bloomed ... unless ... it's none of the above! It does, however, look very much like Nightshade which opened yesterday just a few feet away from it.

NOT Great Lakes, Copper Lustre, or Wabash