Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Classification: Species

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Flowers: Showy

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Common names
  • Species Iris
  • Cube Seed Iris
  • Iris
  • Slender Blue Flag
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Iris prismatica
  • Synonym: Iris prismatica var. austrina
  • Synonym: Iris carolina

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Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-05-15
Slender Blue Flag Iris 001 text

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
  • Uploaded by vic

Date: c. 1927
illustration by Mary E. Eaton from 'Addisonia', 1927
Location: Coffee County, Tennessee.
Date: 2014-05-17
Photo courtesy of: Masebrock

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Comments:
  • Posted by scvirginia on Jun 25, 2020 9:16 PM concerning plant:
    Description from the 1933 catalog, Royal Iris Gardens (J. C. Nicholls, Jr., Camillus, NY), p.75:
    Other American Species
    PRISMATICA (Collected in New Jersey). 24". One of the daintiest and most desirable of our native Irises. Standards pale blue; falls white ground, with a frilled edging of light blue, and yellow throat. Very slender foliage. An American Siberian, but with daintier blooms of more delicate coloring. Grows along streams the same as Versicolor. Highly recommended.

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