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Your search found 24 taxa in the family Iridaceae, Iris family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Blackberry-lily
Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, edges of granitic flatrocks, suburban areas
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Pale Blue-eyed Grass, White Blue-eyed Grass
Look for it in woodlands, savannas?, mesic sandhills, open limestone barrens
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in xeric to dry soils of pine barrens, Carolina bay rims, sandhills, fluvial sand ridges
Uncommon (common in NC Coastal Plain) (endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in pine-oak/heath woodlands and barrens, other sandy habitats
Rare, endemic to the Coastal Plain
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
White Irisette, Isothermal Irisette
Look for it in dry to mesic woodlands and forests, usually over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite), at low to moderate elevations (400-1000m) in the Blue Ridge escarpment
Rare, endemic to Henderson, Polk & Rutherford counties, NC, & Greenville Co, SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Atlantic Blue-eyed Grass, Eastern Blue-eyed Grass
Look for it in dry, sandy or rocky places
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Needletip Blue-eyed Grass
Look for it in forests, woodlands, fields
Common in Mountains & NC Piedmont, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass, Stout Blue-eyed Grass
Look for it in woodlands, forests, meadows, sandhill swales
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Annual Blue-eyed Grass, Lawn Blue-eyed Grass
Look for it in lawns, roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gladiolus
Look for it . It is sometimes cultivated, rarely persisting or spreading
Non-native: southern Africa
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Common Name:
Slender Blue Flag, Slender Blue Iris
Look for it in bogs and marshes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Blue Flag
Look for it in marshes, swamps, streams
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Dixie Iris, Anglepod Blue Flag
Look for it in swamps
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
savanna iris
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Giant Blue Iris
Look for it in marshes and swamps
Rare
Native: Gulf state(s)
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Look for it in swamps, bottomlands, bogs, seeps, marshes
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Copper Iris, Red Flag
Look for it in swamp forests, wet hammocks, usually in shallow water
Rare
Native to Georgia? (introduced in the Carolinas)
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Common Name:
Bay Blue-flag Iris, Flag, Savannah Iris
Look for it in wet savannas, pine flatwoods, margins of pineland pools
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Flag, Water Flag, Yellow Iris
Look for it in swamps, marshes, streams, ponds, streambanks, cultivated as a water plant
Uncommon
Non-native: Eurasia & Africa
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Common Name:
German Iris, Fleur-de-Lys
Look for it on roadsides, at old homesites, in ditches
Uncommon, cultivated & rarely persistant or escaped
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Coastal Plain Dwarf Iris, Sandhill Iris, Coastal Plain Violet Iris
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, dry, rocky forests and woodlands
Common (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Upland Dwarf Iris, Upland Dwarf Violet Iris
Look for it in dry, rocky or sandy woodlands & forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Crested Iris
Look for it in moist forests, rich woods, roadbanks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Siberian Iris
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia & eastern Europe
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