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May 21, 2006 Photo series by Richard Richards Iris tenax flowers bordering the eastern and northeastern side of Hagg Lake were nearly all lavender to purple. Toward the north and west there was much more variety. At higher elevation moving up Scoggins Valley Road, nearly all the flowers were pale to bright yellow. These were the ones called Iris "gormanii" in 1924. In sunny meadows, natural and man-made forest openings, and along roadways toward the north and southwest, the sometimes massed Iris flowers showed so much variation that no two plants seemed the same. Some were pale to dark lavender, others cream or yellow, fawn-brown, or white (with or without yellow eye spots). One clump that drew lots of attention even approached pale sky blue! The photographs below give only a suggestion as to the colors we saw in a cut-over forest opening along Sain Creek Road. Click on a photograph to see a larger version in a new window.
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