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YELLOW WILD IRIS

The indigenous yellow wild iris or peacock flower () has attractive strap-shaped leaves and flowers non-stop for months on end in spring and summer. The pale-yellow blooms each have three brown markings on the petals and are borne on the ends of branched stems. And although each flower only lasts for one day on the plant, it blooms so

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