Blue Flag ..... ( Iris versicolor
)
 Blue Flag ..... © Harvey Kirsch
Iris versicolor is a member of the Iris Family and blooms from
May through August. They may be found in swamps, marshes and wet
shores of rivers. I have seen it along the Rouge, at the Twin
Rivers sites. The underground portion of the stem is poisonous,
but was dried and used as a cathartic or laxative, by the First
Nations Peoples and Early Colonists.
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