Taxon: Iris virginica L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

PRª*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

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Common names:

• blue flag   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• southern blue flag   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• iris de Virginie   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• flaggiris   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.w.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania [n.w.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska [e.], Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

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).
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Britton, N. L. & A. Brown. 1952. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, ed. 3.
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland.
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1975. Aquatic and wetland plants of southwestern United States, 2 vol.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Crow, G. E. & C. B. Hellquist. 2000. Aquatic and wetland plants of northeastern North America, 2 vol.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. [= a syn. of I. versicolor].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 105.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• 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.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Thomas, R. D. & C. M. Allen. 1993–. Atlas of the vascular flora of Louisiana.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Iris virginica.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Iris virginica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Iris shrevei Small
  
• (=) Iris virginica var. shrevei (Small) E. S. Anderson
  

Check other web resources for Iris virginica L.:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Iris virginica cultivars
• 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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• 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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