Iris germanica L.

IRIDACEAE

- Iris family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Iris germanica L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 38 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Iris germanica

Common names

U.S. name: German iris

English name: common iris

English name: flags

Spanish name: lirio de Florencia

French name: iris de Florence

Italian name: Giaggiolo maggiore

German name: florentinische Schwertlilie

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Iris germanica L. var. florentina (L.) Dykes

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Liliidae
Order: Liliales
Family: Iridaceae
Genus: Iris
Species:

Page counter: 1957 ( AVG: 223.22 / 292.537 )

Gallery:

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Campus Universitario, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Turri di Montegrotto Terme, pendici del Monte Ceva, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico. , PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Iris germanica
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico., PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Iris germanica
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Iris germanica
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Iris germanica
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Iris germanica
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Iris germanica
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, UT, VA, WA, WI), CAN (MB, NB, ON, QC)

Distributional map for Iris germanica L.
Map for Iris germanica L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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