Beachhead Iris (Iris setosa)
Description
Iris setosa-is a species in the genus-Iris, it is also in the subgenus of-Limniris-and in the-Iris series Tripetalae. It is a-rhizomatous-perennial-from a wide range across the Arctic sea, including-Alaska,-Maine, Canada (including-British Columbia,-Newfoundland,-Quebec-and-Yukon), Russia (including-Siberia), northeastern Asia,-China,-Korea-and southwards to Japan. It has tall branching stems, mid green leaves and violet, purple-blue, violet-blue, blue, to lavender flowers. There are also pink and white forms. It is one of the three-Iris-species in the-Iris-flower data set-outlined by-Ronald Fisher-in his 1936 paper "The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems" as an example of-linear discriminant analysis
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Iridaceae
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Genus: Iris
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