NOUN
- iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa
How To Use gladdon In A Sentence
- This plant is also known as sweet root, sweet rush, sweet cane, sweet flag, gladdon, sweet myrtle, myrtle grass, myrtle sedge, and cinnamon sedge.
- It belongs to a section of the Iris family called Limniris, which also includes closely-related I. lazica 3 and British native I. foetidissima (gladdon, or stinking iris).
- Its botanical name is Iris foetidissima and it is also known as stinking gladwin or gladdon.
- One of them is the reserve of gladdons located near the southern town gates.
- The gladdon is a good plant for dry shade and will thrive even under yew trees.
