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Sepals and petals are yellw-orange and mottled with purplish spots, per Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops.
Tepals of our Sisyrinchium (excepting S. rosulatum & minus) spread abruptly, per Weakley's Flora.
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Sisyrinchium fuscatum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Sisyrinchium fuscatum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
The perianths of Sisyrinchium ssp. are about 3/4" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Each scape has a solitary sessile purple spathe bearing clusters of flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sisyrinchium graminoides
Stems are usually branched, each with 2(+) spathes on long peduncles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
INCLUDING
Sisyrinchium exile
Tepals of S. rosulatum flare gradually, usually with a maroon blaze at base, per Weakley's Flora.
Perianth with tepals abruptly spreading in a plane; tepals white, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Gladiolus dalenii ssp. dalenii
Tepals basally connate into tube, dorsal tepal arched to hooded over stamens, per Flora of North America.
Sepals spatulate-shaped w a white area w violet lines. Petals oblanceolate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Three erect petals, smaller than the sepals and without markings, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Iris savannarum
Perianth blue-violet (rarely white); petals erect to spreading, per Weakley's Flora.
The petals are basically gone ("obsolete"), unlike most irises. John Nelson
The 3 narrow petal-like sections are flattened branches of the style, per The Monthly Illustrator, Vol 4 (Jones, 1895).
INCLUDING
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Iris flavescens
Sepals bluish to violet with yellow or orange band in center, not crested, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Three erect spatulate-shaped petals with narrow claws, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
3 unmarked petals, 3 sepals with a small fluted yellow crest, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Iris foliosa
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Iris mississippiensis
Petals erect, narrowly elliptic-obovate; style divided into petaloid branches, per Flora of North America.
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