page_title: Iris halophila
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Iris halophila / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Ирис солелюбивый (Iris halophila). Из коллекции Ботанического сада МГУ (основная территория на Воробьёвых горах), Москва. English: Iris halophila. From the collection of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University (main area on the Sparrow Hills).
context_page_description: Iris halophila is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Limniris and in series Spuriae. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant, with yellow, white or violet flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions. It comes from a wide range from eastern Europe to China in Asia. It was known for a long while as a subspecies of Iris spuria, before being treated as a separate species in its own right.
context_section_description: The Latin specific epithet halophila refers to salt loving.
  It had the common name of long leafed flag, It is known as the salt marsh iris in Germany.
  It is written as 喜盐鸢尾 in Chinese script and known as xi yan yuan wei in Pinyin Chinese.
  It was first published as Iris spuria subsp. halophila, by Peter Simon Pallas  in 'Reise Russ. Reich.' Vol.2 page733. in 1773. 
  It was then 3 years later re-published as Iris halophila by Pallas in 'Reise Russ. Reich.' Vol3 page713 in 1776.
  Most plant authors and botanists classed it as a subspecies of Iris spuria, including Brian Mathew in 1981 in his book 'The Iris'.
  It was still verified as Iris halophila by United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service on 9 January 2003.
  As of February 2015, it is incorrectly listed as a synonym of Iris spuria by the RHS.
caption: Clump of Iris halophila, seen in Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
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