Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 16

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-COMMON_NAMES- Variegated Iris, Variable Flower-du-luce
-GENUS- Iris 
-SPECIES- Iris variegata
-CLASS- Triandria 
-ORDER- Monogynia 
-AUTHORITY- Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS- Iris
-MODERN_SPECIES- Iris variegata 
-MODERN_FAMILY- Iridaceae 

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial 
-COLOR- light yellow, veined red-brown to purple; beard yellow 
-SEASON- May and June 
-NATIVE_REGION- Hungary 

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine 
-VOLUME- 1 
-PUB_DATE- 1787
-REISSUED- 1793 
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- J. Sowerby
-NALPCD- Disc 0644 IMG0013.PCD