Swamps Iris

''Iris grant-duffii'' is a species in the genus ''Iris''. It is also in the subgenus of Limniris and in the Iris series Syriacae. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, which has brown bristles/spines on the rhizome, long thin greyish green leaves, short stem carrying a single scented flower in shades of yellow.