I tried this in the id forum but didn't get any bites. It grows from a rhizome, not a bulb, and the lady who gave it to me told me it likes water and can take some shade.
Apparently it doesn't like to be transplanted bcs the ones I moved did not bloom this year.
I've been dying to know what this is but this is tyhe first year that I've had a digital camera!
TIA!!
Sherry
Another pic
And one more
Might be Iris hexagona. I got an unidentified iris a few years ago that I later identified as this species. It likes moisture, has long rhizomes so it can spread rather fast. Flowers are lovely, but bloom is brief. It is native the the coastal plain of the southeast.
I had just decided that it was Iris virginica after looking at pics on the net. But now that I've looked at pics of hexagona, the 2 are so similar I don't know which one I've got!!
One site did say that the hexagona stem is zigzag but the other is straight, so I'll look at the stems tomorrow.
Don't think it really matters much - cultivation is abt the same - but I like to know.
Thanks!!.
Virginica stalks can swoop around, they are often not straight--it may be a different bend, not a zigzag.
