Perennial ID.. some sort of iris?

Hello,

Got this clumping up quite a bit around a rose, and I'd like to thin it, or move it. Is it some kind of iris? My id app reckons yellow flag iris, but I doubted it as I believe it liked boggy, wet ground (I'm on sand - like 12 inches down, yellow sand!)

Any ideas? Probably hard to tell. I can't recall.it flowering (but it may have)

 

Could be Crocosmia.

 

Interesting.. if it was, could I divide it / move it?

 

Yes, they move easily and keep coming back when you think you’ve removed them all! It’s better to do this in spring but as it’s not flowering yet, should be fine.

 

Ive dug a few up. Do you think the tuber/corm looks like Crocosmia?

 

The leaves in your original photo look like crocosmia to me. Difficult to tell from your second photo, but crocosmia have corms that grow in a kind of necklace effect, like the ones shown in the photo on here.
Rachel the Gardener: Crocosmia: have you ever wondered....

 

Ah interesting. There seems to be long tubers - as bit like a skinny sweet potato..

It also doesn't have all of those tubers sitting at the surface like my bearded Iris does, rather then seem more vertical

 

In your 2nd pic, there seems to be a couple of little balls below the left set of stems. If so, those are the crocosmia corms. They multiply by stacking up vertically, and the top ones are the new bits. If you clean off the soil, you might be able to see them better.
They also have those thicker, fleshy roots which look a bit like they could be Iris rhizomes - but aren't!

The moisture loving Irises [there are several types] have a different growth habit from the bearded ones, with the tubers growing down rather than being more horizontal. I wouldn't have thought those could be Irises if you have drier, sandy soil, but if the sandy soil is lower down [the pic doesn't look it to me] it's possible that they are, and are getting enough moisture for the root system. For example, the sibirica Irises like moisture, but don't like sitting in permanently wet conditions like the flag[ pseudocorus] or ensata types.

 

Hm still can't see them. Pulled the roots apart a bit. All I can see is the fibrous roots and these tuber things. I'll keep looking.

 

I don't know how well this will show, but I circled the bit that looked like possible corms

 

The latest pictures lead me to say not crocosmia, all the crocosmia bulbs I've seen are like those shown in the blog linked to above.

 

I'll just throw this in, its not a daylily is it.

 

I tend to think Iris and crocosmia mostly have a flat fan shape.
It could even be Yucca filamentosa.