Gad is another ordinary common noun in Hebrew. It means 'good luck'. We all want as much of it as we can get. So it is not surprising that it became a proper noun, the name of some people, a tribe of Israel, and a god. The god Gad was not ordinarily identified with Baal.
There currently are five recognized species in the Series Hexagonae, as the Louisiana iris group within the Genus Iris is called. They are: I. brevicaulis, I. fulva, I. hexagona, I. giganticaerulea and I. nelsonii.
The meaning of the iris flower is rainbow and at Greeks, Iris was a goddess, a messenger of love. This beautiful flower has many mixtures of colors like blue with purple, white with yellow, pink with orange, brown with red, or even black. The iris flower is native from North temperate regions of the world and has more than 200 species. The most common grown species are the Bearded iris and the Siberian iris.