Iris pseudacorus   Yellow flag       Z. 4-8

Stout sword like leaves with vivid canary blossoms in early summer.

Size: H 3-5' x S 6" and spreading      Culture:  Full sun wet soil, can be shallow water plant     
Native:  Europe, Siberia, Caucasus
Stout sword like leaves with vivid canary blossoms in early summer. Credited with saving Clovis I, king of the Franks in 496 when he sighted a clump across the river, indicating shallow water to ford the river and escape the advancing Goths. It became the Fleur de Louis in 1147 when Louis VII left for the Crusades. In the early 1300's Charles I placed the flower on the French flag as the symbol of France, the Fleur de lis. Jefferson grew Yellow flag at Monticello.