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May 21, 2006
SPCNI's Iris tenax Trek, Spring 2006
On the Sunday before the American Iris Society's national convention in Portland, Oregon, 41 visitors traveled by bus to Hagg Lake, about one hour to the southwest. A distinctive yellow iris from Scoggins Creek (photo below), that flows into the lake, was named "Iris gormanii" in 1924.
Below are links to descriptions and photographs put together separately by members of the Trek 2006.
Martha Sleeper, who lives on a hillside above Hagg Lake, described the different color forms of local Iris tenax in the Fall 2001 issue of SIGNA, the journal of the Species Iris Group of North America. Martha and Debby Cole served as Trek leaders.
Rita Gormley, of Cedar Hill, Missouri, assembled a photo-collage from images taken along the route. (The 400 Kb file is in .pdf format - allow up to a minute [phone line connection] for it to download and open in Adobe Reader.)
Richard Richards, past president of SPCNI, caught some of the astounding variety in color in one Iris tenax population in a forest clearing along Sain Creek, on the southern side of Lake Hagg.
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