According to information contained in Betrocks's Reference Guide to Flordia Landscape Plants, Neomarica longifolia is the yellow walking iris. (See http://www.papillote.dm/gallery/lily_.htm ) Scott Ogden, in his book, Garden Bulbs for the South, disagrees. He says that honor goes to Trimezia martinicensis, which he notes, is the most drought-tolerant of the travelling irises, and the one least likely to protest alkaline or clay soil. (See http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/car... )
The elusive Neomarica cf. northiana, is sometimes offered at plant sales at major botanical gardens. I received my plant from Fairchild Gardens in Miami but I have also seen this gem for sale at farmer's markets. The flowers are 2 to 3 inches in diameter and are pale yellow, tan and blue. When established, plants are fairly frost-hardy. In south Florida they make relatively pest-free landscape plants, thriving in bright shade. Flowers are fragrant.
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