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Iris ivanovae is a small rhizomatous perennial iris from Siberia, northern China and Mongolia, grown for its pink-purple flowers in rock gardens. Its key needs are full sun, sharp drainage and protection from winter wet.
Iris ivanovae is a plant species in the genus Iris and part of the subgenus Iris and in the section Pseudoregelia. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from eastern Russia, China, and Mongolia.
It has narrow and linear light green leaves, short slender stem and pink-purple flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
It was introduced to the Trans-Baikal Botanical Garden in 1996.
It has been grown in botanical gardens of Novosibirsk (Central Siberian Botanical Garden), Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden and Chita (Trans-Baikal Botanical Garden), to determine its cold hardiness. Specimens did not survive in St. Petersburg.
Iris ivanovae is native to central Asia, including U.S.S.R., China and Mongolia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Iris ivanovae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
