Plants

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Iberis or candytuft

Iberis

Annual and perennial herbaceous plants, sometimes subshrubs, 10 to 40 cm high. Leaves entire or pinnately divided. Flowers small, white, pink or lilac, gathered in umbel‑like racemes.

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Indian Duchesnea, Indian cinquefoil

Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke

Perennial plant with leafy, hairy, creeping stems up to 100 cm long, resembling a strawberry in appearance.

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Inflated lady's-slipper

С. ventricosum

Occurs in deciduous and mixed forests, on forest glades in the temperate zones of the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Far East, reaching the Kuril Islands, northeastern China and Japan.

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Ipheion

Ipheion

Herbaceous, perennial bulbous plant, bulb small, ovoid; its outer scales extend to the base of the stems. Several stems, 15—30 cm high. Many leaves, they are broad-linear, almost flat, glaucous, as long as the stems. Fl…

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Iridodictyum

Iridodictyum

Perennials with a small bulb, composed externally of net-fibrous scales and internally of one large fleshy tunicate scale and several small rudimentary scales in the center of the bulb.

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Iris

Iris L.

Perennial herbaceous rhizomatous plants. They have two types of shoots: vegetative and generative. Vegetative shoots are perennial underground rhizomes, buried in the soil or located on the surface, consisting of separa…

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Iris Alberta

Iris albertii Regel

Leaves broadly sword-shaped, purple-violet at the base. Flower stalk up to 60 cm tall, branched in the upper part.

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Iris Timofeeva

Iris timofejewii Woron.

A rare Caucasian species. It grows in large, dense tufts 30-40 and even 70-90 cm across on very dry, calcium-rich, sun-exposed mountain rocky slopes of southern aspect.

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Iris cherepitchaty

Iris imbricata Lindl.

Close to I. albertii. It differs from it by the fawn-yellow color of the flowers (rarely, plants with bluish flowers occur), by broader leaves with tips that do not wither during the growing season, and by boat-shaped, …

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Iris furcata or forked iris

Iris furcata Bieb. = I. babadagica Rzazade et Goln

Grows on dry, sun-exposed mountain terraces. Plants with a single-flowered scape are often encountered, frequently mistaken for I. pumila.

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Iris scariosa (Leather iris)

Iris scariosa Willd.

Iris scariosa (I. scariosa Willd.) - description, species, photos, care, cultivation, transplanting, pests, propagation - Iris

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Italian arum

Arum italicum Mill

The height of this perennial plant is 60 cm; it blooms in spring with pale creamy-yellow flowers with a spathe about 15 cm tall. The leaves are large with silvery, wavy margins and emerge in autumn.

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Italian or European Aster

A. amellus L.

Italian aster, depending on the cultivar, 30 to 60 cm tall. The plant is a semi-spherical bush with well-branched pubescent stems; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, arranged alternately.

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Ixiolirion

Ixialirion

The genus Ixiolirion belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family, which includes the well-known houseplants amaryllises and hippeastrums. In our latitudes, only the early-flowering snowdrops (Galanthus) and snowflakes (Leucoju…

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Ixiolirion karateginum

Ix. karateginum Lipsky

Family Amaryllidaceae. Stems up to 10 cm tall. Leaves narrow-linear. Flowers pale lilac, 2–7 in an umbel-like inflorescence. Blooms in July.