Yellow iris 🌼🌹

The iris of the European swamps 🌼🌹

The yellow iris or yellow flag (scientific name Iris pseudacorus, Iridaceae family) is a beautiful herbaceous plant that grows spontaneously in marshy soils, along canals and ditches, together with other plants that prefer humidity. It has a rigid stem with leaves almost as long as the stem, which look like sword blades 🗡️, and yellow flowers 🌼 that bloom one after the other, reflecting their beauty in the waterways. It reaches a height of 150 cm.

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Yellow iris is mainly pollinated by bees and bumblebees 🐝 which crawl inside the flower to collect nectar. Yellow tepals provide a landing strip ✈️ for insects that have to touch the part of the flower that contains pollen to descend towards the nectar. In this way the pollen falls on the back of the insects, and pollination is ensured.

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