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Your search found 26 taxa in the family Iridaceae, Iris family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Blackberry-lily
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris domestica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Belamcanda chinensis FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Belamcanda chinensis 046-01-001 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sisyrinchium albidum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium albidum FAMILY: Iridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium albidum 046-02-001 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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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Common Name: Bristly Blue-eyed Grass, Coastal Plain Blue-eyed Grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sisyrinchium fuscatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium fuscatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
(?) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium arenicola 046-02-002 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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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Common Name: Sandyland Blue-eyed Grass
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sisyrinchium arenicola FAMILY: Iridaceae
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium fuscatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Sisyrinchium dichotomum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium dichotomum FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sisyrinchium atlanticum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium atlanticum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium mucronatum var. atlanticum 046-02-003a FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sisyrinchium mucronatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium mucronatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium mucronatum var. mucronatum 046-02-003a FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sisyrinchium angustifolium FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium angustifolium FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium angustifolium 046-02-004 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sisyrinchium rosulatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sisyrinchium rosulatum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sisyrinchium rosulatum 046-02-005 FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in lawns, roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gladiolus
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Gladiolus dalenii ssp. dalenii FAMILY: Iridaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Gladiolus dalenii ssp. dalenii FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris prismatica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris prismatica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris prismatica 046-05-001 FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in bogs and marshes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Blue Flag
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris virginica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris virginica var. virginica FAMILY: Iridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris virginica 046-05-002 FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in tidal and nontidal marshes and swamps, stream margins, flatwoods, wet meadows, bogs
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shreve's iris, Shreve's Blue Flag iris
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris shrevei FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris virginica var. shrevei FAMILY: Iridaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris virginica 046-05-002? FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in marshes, swamps, streams
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Northern Blue Flag, Larger Blue Flag, Poison Flag, harlequin blueflag
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris versicolor FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris versicolor FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in calcareous fens and marshes, mafic fens, tidal marshes and swamps, interdune ponds, shores
Native: north of the Carolinas
Common Name:
Dixie Iris, Anglepod Blue Flag
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris hexagona FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris hexagona var. hexagona FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris hexagona 046-05-003 FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in swamps
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
savanna iris
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Iris savannarum FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris hexagona var. savannarum FAMILY: Iridaceae
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Giant Blue Iris
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris giganticaerulea FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris giganticaerulea FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in marshes and swamps
Rare
Native: Gulf state(s)
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Common Name: Short-stem Iris, Lamance Iris, Zigzag Iris
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris brevicaulis FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris brevicaulis FAMILY: Iridaceae
Look for it in swamps, bottomlands, bogs, seeps, marshes
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Copper Iris, Red Flag
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Iris fulva FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris fulva FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris tridentata FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris tridentata FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris tridentata 046-05-004 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris pseudacorus FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris pseudacorus FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris pseudacorus 046-05-005 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris germanica FAMILY: Iridaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Iris germanica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris germanica 046-05-006 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris verna var. verna FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris verna var. verna FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris verna var. verna 046-05-007a FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris verna var. smalliana FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris verna var. smalliana FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris verna var. smalliana 046-05-007b FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris cristata FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris cristata FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Iris cristata 046-05-008 FAMILY: Iridaceae
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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Iris sibirica FAMILY: Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Iris sibirica FAMILY: Iridaceae
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia & eastern Europe
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