Iris cristata Vein Mountain Amaryllids Tropicanna canna is the Howard

Tropicanna canna is the Howard Stern of the plant world

for potpourri

very hairy flowers with lovely interior reticulate venation of purple against a creamy background

This bold mound of foliage is softened

Iris cristata Vein Mountain Amaryllids Tropicanna canna is the HowardIris cristata 'Vein Mountain' is a 1985 We Du nursery introduction and one of the most unique crested woodland iris selections we grow. We Du obtained this selection of our US native iris from a plantsman in Japan when they ordered Iris gracilipes. Dick and Rene subsequently named the iris after NC's Vein Mountain, near the town of Marion. Iris cristata 'Vein Mountain' is one of the tallest clones of the dwarf Iris cristata that we grow, topping out