Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Iris fulva
FAMILY
Iridaceae
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Learn more about Iris from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Iris fulva
FAMILY
Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH Can a rainbow consist of a single colour?... the ‘Iris sensu latissimo’ clade (Iridaceae) (Crespo, Martínez-Azorín, Mavrodiev, 2015)
Phaeiris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Iris fulva
COMMON NAME:
Copper Iris, Red Flag
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Iris fulva
FAMILY
Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Iris fulva
FAMILY
Iridaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Can a rainbow consist of a single colour?... the ‘Iris sensu latissimo’ clade (Iridaceae) (Crespo, Martínez-Azorín, Mavrodiev, 2015)
Phaeiris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Iris fulva
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Iris fulva
759
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: swamp forests, wet hammocks, usually in shallow water. Become somewhat popular as a native wildflower in cultivation, per Weakley's Flora
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Dull copper/ Orange-brown/ Dark yellow
Radially symmetrical
3 sepals
3 petals
3 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p151
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p386
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p442
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