| Common Name: | Yellow flag iris |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Species: | pseudacorus |
| Classification/Rank: | Extremely Invasive |
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| Habitat/Range: | • sold in garden centres and still available through the horticulture industry. • first reported in 2002 on Haida Gwaii • extremely invasive and could have serious impacts on the wetlands of Haida Gwaii • noted as common in Hartley Bay in 2005, and throughout the Stikine-Skeena IPMA beginning in 2009 |
• perennial herb from a rhizome; grows 0.5 to 1.5 m tall
• stems simple, sometimes branched
• leaves mostly basal, entire, long pointed
• flowers pale to deep yellow; inflorescence of 4 to 12 showy flowers, tubes flared above
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