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Iris foetidissima (Stinking Iris)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Iris foetidissima (Stinking iris, gladdon, Gladwin iris, roast-beef plant, stinking gladwin), is a species of iris found in open woodland, hedgebanks and sea-cliffs. Its natural range is Western Europe, including England south of Durham and also Ireland, and from France south and east to N. Africa, Italy and Greece. It is known as "stinking" because some people find the smell of its leaves unpleasant when crushed or bruised, an odour that has been described as "beefy".
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Infraspecies

Iris foetidissima var. citrina
Iris foetidissima var. foetidissima

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The roots of this plant are toxic to grazing mammals; Plants can cause skin irritations and allergies in some people;
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  The crushed leaves, and the root, emit a strong odour which, at a distance, resembles hot roast beef. On closer acquaintance the scent becomes disagreeable.
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade and in dry soils; Rather slow to spread though, needing weeding for the first year or two; Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way;
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Buskett - Girgenti Area 557 Malta  
Marchesato e Fiume Neto 173480 Italy  
Monti Sicani, Rocca Busambra e Bosco della Ficuzza 144567 Italy  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve V 1777 Spain  

Predators

Litoligia literosa[5]
Mononychus punctumalbum[5]
Phaeosphaeriopsis vectis[6]
Phomopsis iridis[6]
Phytobia iridis[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Puccinia iridis[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0