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Stephen Colton 03 July, 2021 01:00 Yellow Iris brightening up our many damp margins and wetlands with its elegant, almost stately looking, yellow flag flowers from June through to August
FROM the dense cover of a tree thicket, a restless Blackcap rendered its cheery, fluty song, a rich musical warbling, synonymous with the busyness of summer.
Close by in the damp, swampy margins of this Fermanagh woodland edge, the large yellow flowers of Yellow Iris shone from their tall reedy stems, with the long sword-like green leaves fluttering in a gentle breeze.
Surrounding its three upright flower petals are three drooping outer petals marked with fine purple veins. Iris pseudacorus, also known as the yellow flag or water flag, is a native here and throughout Europe with the closely related Stinking Iris, a garden escape, naturalised in some woods and hedgerows, the other species found less frequently throughout Ireland.
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