Sweet iris
Iris pallida Lam.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 65 cm
- wide
- —
Iridaceae
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Italy to NW. Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Slovenian
- bleda perunika
- Czech
- kosatec bledý
- German
- Bleiche Schwertlilie
- Finnish
- tuoksukurjenmiekka
- Chinese
- 香根鸢尾
- Simplified Chinese
- 香根鸢尾
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Iris pallida (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.