| Iris subg. Scorpiris | |
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| Iris persica (Juno persica) in The Botanical Magazine | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Subgenus: | Iris subg. Scorpiris |
| Type species | |
| Iris persica | |
Iris subg. Scorpiris, commonly called Juno, is a subgenus of Iris, representing the smooth-bulbed bulbous irises. For a while it was an independent genus Juno Tratt. in some classifications.[1][2][3]
There are around 60 different species of Juno irises, making it the largest group of bulbous irises. They generally have thick fleshy storage roots (between a few and to several) under a fleshy-like bulb. Most are native to the Middle East and Central Asia (excluding China). There is a single Mediterranean species, Iris planifolia.[4][5]
All the species are dormant in summer and then grow leaves in mid-winter or early spring.[4]
Many of the bulbs produce scented flowers. Most bulbs are not frost hardy and are best grown in a bulb frame or alpine house.[6]
It consists of a single section, Scorpiris.
- ^ Rodionenko, G.I. The genus Iris L.: (questions of morphology, biology evolution and systematics). London: British Iris Society, 1987, 222 p. ISBN 0-901483-30-3
- ^ Czerepanov, S. K. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR. Leningrad: Nauka, 1981, 509 p. (In Russian)
- ^ Cherepanov, S. K. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). Cambridge University Press, 1995, 516 p. ISBN 0-521-45006-3
- ^ a b "Juno irises A-I". www.pacificbulbsociety.org. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ British Iris Society (1997)A Guide to Species Irises: Their Identification and Cultivation , p. 225, at Google Books
- ^ Cassidy, G.E.; Linnegar, S. (1987). Growing Irises (Revised ed.). Bromley: Christopher Helm. pp. 145–146. ISBN 0-88192-089-4.