Southern Blue Flag (Iris virginica L.)
Also known as southern blueflag, Virginia blueflag, Virginia blue flag, Virginia iris.
↑Summary
A showy, rhizomatous perennial native to wetlands and land-water borders mostly in the southeastern US but extending farther north in the Midwest.
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| Legend | Color |
| Native | |
| Native or Not Present |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.
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↑Links & External Resources
• Iris virginica (Virginia iris) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Iris virginica (Southern Blue Flag) | Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (About This Site)
• Iris virginica | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Iris virginica | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Iris virginica | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Iris virginica | Missouri Plants (About This Site)
• Virginia Iris | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Iris virginica (Southern Blueflag) | Minnesota Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Iris virginica L. (Virginia Blue Flag, Southern Blue Flag) | Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora (About This Site)
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