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Old May 16, 2008, 06:12 PM
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Identifying a Flowering Plant

Does any one know what this plant is? I think it's in the Liliaceae Family. I found it in northeast Oregon. It was on a ridgetop with hundreds of others like it. I don't have a fresh one.

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Old May 17, 2008, 04:19 AM   #2  
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Even though it is more purplish, that looks kind of like what is called a 'Blue Flag'. It's of the Iris family Iridaceae. The Blue Flag is more common to the northeast though, but you never know.

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bushg agrees: yep, your right about the flag or iris , but I don't believe they grow wild or at least I haven't seen them in the wild.
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Iris douglasiana - douglas iris

heres a niice picture of one Douglas Iris

Enjoy, they are beautiful.

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galactus agrees: I knew it was an iris and not a lily family.
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I didn't look like that. The flower was a bell shape
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I looked it up in the Audobon wildflower book and it says they grow in the northeast. That's all I know. I can't remember seeing them in the wild either
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Both of the flowers grow wild.
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