Family Iridaceae

Family Iridaceae

Many members of the Iris family (Iridaceae) are cultivated as garden plants. There are about 1000 species and they are distributed all over the world. The flowers and sheathing leaves grow up from an underground bulb, corm or rhizome. Each flower has three coloured sepals, three petals and three stamens and the sepals and petals are often joined at their bases to form a tube. [CH] {FB}