Iris cretensis Kotsifou Gorge Andropogon Here's a fabulous and rare

Here's a fabulous and rare US native plant that you're not likely to run into at your neighborhood garden center

Because of the leaf layer arrangement

and floriferous seedling we've seen

which must displace native plants in a natural habitat

Iris cretensis Kotsifou Gorge Andropogon Here's a fabulous and rare(aka: Iris unguicularis var. cretensis) Iris cretensis 'Kotsifou Gorge' is a 2017 Plant Delights Nursery introduction grown from a single cutting taken near the nerve rattling Kotsifou Gorge Bridge at 1,200' elevation in Central Crete. There, Iris cretensis grows in large 6' wide mats in the dry, rocky, full sun hillsides. In the garden, Iris 'Kotsifou Gorge' makes a small 5" tall x 18" wide (5 years) rock garden sized mound of very narrow grass like