What the heck?

I received a couple fans last year from a lady I help. Didn't bloom this year. I was watering tonight, and noticed this 'dying' leaf right in the center...

So I looked a little closer.... Sure looks like it's trying to be a flower, doesn't it? But there's no stalk ~ and it's just the color of the iris she gave me! Very weird.

I think that's the strangest thing I've seen yet.

It looks like it's coming right out of the leaf? Or in between two fans?

What's your weather been like?

I had an MTB do that this year but I didn't take a picture of it. Aachen Elf produced two irises for me that way one right after the other. It came right out of the center of the fan where the bloom stalk should have been. Apparently the bloom stalk was stunted severly during development because of temperature flux this spring.

Roni.

We did have a few late freezes but I didn't lose anything else and this is in a fairly protected location. All the other irises are long since done.

I've had a few of mine do that to me. It could be because of weather, or, if I'm understanding you right, it's trying to send up a late bloom and the rhizome doesn't have enough juice left to send out a stalk.

weather dose it and some times a drift from some one else yard of Round up
I have day lily Jackie's Choice blooming right now ,and it is blooming on ground had five buds just broke ground level and quit growing but is blooming , the late freeze did it here . it only takes a few mi mutes of cold at a certain part of stem formation and it stunts it .
will be fine next year .