Iris cristata Groundcover Shrubs bears seeds that release a

bears seeds that release a natural pectin when rubbed in water

beauty in the face of adversity

the nodding onion

and will settle happily into an ordinary garden given steady moisture

Iris cristata Groundcover Shrubs bears seeds that release aIris cristata is the iris scaled down for the woodland floor, a dwarf native barely six inches high that spreads into low, overlapping fans of bright green blades. In mid to late spring the mats light up with small flowers, an inch and a half to two inches across, in soft lavender blue to violet, each fall stamped with a white patch and a raised orange or yellow ridge. That ridge is the crest that gives the plant both the Latin name cristata, crested,