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Elegant bicolor blooms appear in early spring with reflexed ivory perianths and a golden corona, or trumpet, that shifts to a soft apricot as the bloom ages.

Ceylon has a yellow perianth with a rich orange cup that reddens over the blooming period.

While I’ve grown Algerian iris for years, just last winter I began harvesting the long-necked blossoms — technically, those “necks” are pronounced perianth tubes that are up to 8 inches long — as a cut flower.

For example, a reduction in whorls would have allowed the perianth—the sepals and the petals—to play more of a protective role and help attract pollinators.

The cup is shorter than the perianth segments, but always more than one-third their length; one flower per stem.