Yellow Flag (Iris pseudacorus)
Iris (Iris Ssp.) Lily-like with leaves which are long and narrow.
Flowers are large with pink, blue, lilac, and purple to white, brown, yellow, orange and almost black flowers.
Toxic Part: Leaves and rootstock. Burning and severe pain in the intestinal tract; nausea and severe diarrhoea.
Skin irritation may result from the sap and seeds in some species. Primary Poisons: irisin, iridin or irisine.

Information reference: Waltham Forest Fuchsia, Pelargonium and Horticultural Society, London
http://www.communigate.co.uk/london/fuchsia/index.phtml
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Iris pseudacorus
yellow flag iris - This showy European native gives new meaning to the phrase “attractive nuisance.” First
planted in the 1800s as a splash of color along pond edges, stream banks, and other moist areas, the deep blue-green
sword-like leaves and lemony yellow flowers of yellow flag iris are now found far from cultivated gardens and domestic
ponds, energetically colonizing wild wetlands where they can displace native irises. Yellow flag iris is easily
distinguished from native irises because it is the only yellow-flowered iris species growing in the wild. Because it
readily spreads both from seed and by division, digging or pulling the whole plant is advised.
Reference info from New England Wild Flower Society/Dorothy Long]

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