Description
Iris foetidissima is an evergreen beauty known as Gladwin iris or roast beef plant perfect for sun to part shade. It will even tolerate dry shade if it gets a bit of moisture from time to time. Its excellent green spiky foliage is topped in early summer with delicate flowers with mustard yellow standards and white and lavender falls with beautiful dark purple veining. In autumn and winter it then presents a great display of bright orange fruit. This is a valuable yet little-grown species. Tolerant of dry conditions but prefers even moisture. Bruised foliage smells “beefy”. Deer resistant.
