Iris brevicaulis 26/1 Restock for the evergreen leaves

for the evergreen leaves

low enough for the front of a border yet flowering with the same abandon as a full-sized tree

or a winter sky

Treated with that respect

Iris brevicaulis 26/1 Restock for the evergreen leavesIris brevicaulis is the low, quiet member of a famous clan. One of the five wild species known collectively as the Louisiana irises, the plant carries broad blue to violet flowers on curiously kinked, zigzagging stems, so short that the blooms rarely clear the fan of sword shaped leaves. Botanists call that back and forth habit fractiflex, and the trait gives the plant one of the common names, zigzag iris; the Latin brevicaulis, short stemmed, records