Walking iris is a good-looking, generous group of plants. Add one to the garden and count the returns as new plants form on the flower stems. The most familiar and namesake of the genus ...

Walking iris have a distinctive cream and purple flower and get their name from their habit of falling over and starting new plants. Siberian irises come from Europe, and although they will grow ...

Learn how to grow walking iris in containers. Insufficient light caused by increased shade from maturing trees, nearby plantings and new structures can also reduce or prevent iris blooming.

Growth habit: An upright evergreen, perennial, bulblike plant with foliage originating from near the soil line. This is an iris relative with swordlike foliage that grows to 30 inches tall and 11/ ...

But the most elegant method of conquering new ground is used by relatively few plants: They walk — sort of. Take the aptly named walking iris (Trimezia martinicensis) from Tropical America.

The Iris genus is a member of Iris plant family (Iridaceae), which includes 66 genera, including the familiar freesias, gladioli and crocuses. The Iris genus includes about 300 species.