Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

1965
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Iridaceae
Iris tridentata

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Iridaceae
Iris tridentata

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Iridaceae
046-05-004
Iris tridentata

Common Name:
Flag, savannah iris

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in wet savannas, pine flatwoods, margins of pineland pools, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Violet
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
3 sepals
3 petals
3 stamens
Inferior ovary

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p317
Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p059
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p189




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May
Williamsburg County SC

 

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May
Williamsburg County SC

 

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May

 

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Month Unknown

 

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"Whoever the men were who designed the geographical biscuit cutter which sliced out the Old North State, they succeeded so well botanically that one might think of them as possessed with less political sense than vegetational acumen." — B.W. Wells, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina