Taxon: Iris setosa Pall. ex Link

See also subordinate taxa:

• Iris setosa var. setosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• Arctic blue flag   (Source: Glea Cron )
  
• Arctic iris   (Source: not available)
  
• beach-head iris   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• mountain iris   (Source: Iris China )
  
• shan yuan wei   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Jilin [e.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia

References:

• Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory. (F Yukon)
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Hinds, H. R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick, ed. 2. (F New Brunswick)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
• Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. (Iris) 84–86.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Waddick, J. W. & Zhao Yu-tang. 1992. Iris of China. (Iris China)
• Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada. (F AlaskaAnd)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Iris setosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Iris setosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Iris setosa Pall. ex Link:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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