Taxon: Iris cristata Aiton

Common names:

• crested iris   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• dwarf crested iris   (Source: Amer J Bot 87:294.) – English
  
• krypiris   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [lists as I. cristata Sol. ex Aiton].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hannan, G. L. & M. W. Orick. 2000. Isozyme diversity in Iris cristata and the threatened glacial endemic I. lacustris (Iridaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 87:293–301.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 71.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rhoads, A. F. & T. A. Block. 2000. The plants of Pennsylvannia. An illustrated manual.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Iris cristata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Iris cristata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Iris cristata.

Check other web resources for Iris cristata Aiton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

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More:

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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