Dwarf-Crested Iris

This is actually an unfinished project that I found recently (Spring 2009). During my junior year in high school, my biology club took a trip to Big South Fork Park for our annual field trip. While there, we took a hike into the mountains and along the way saw many gorgeous wildflowers, each having its own unique petal formation and colors. Several of the flowers caught my eye such as, the lady slipper, the spring beauty, and this one, the dwarf-crested iris. There was just something about its fragile beauty that drew me to it. We nearly passed it up, but I stopped to take a few pictures of it before catching up with my group.