Plant Details

Accepted name:: Iris virginica L. [Iridaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
blue flag	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
flaggiris	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
iris de virginie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
southern blue flag	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
virginia iris	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Iris caroliniana S.Watson in A.Gray, Manual, ed. 6: 514 (1890).
Iris convoluta Raf. New Fl. 2: 92 (1837).
Iris georgiana Britton in N.L.Britton & A.Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2, 1: 537 (1913).
Iris shrevei Small Addisonia 12: 13 (1927).
Iris versicolor var. shrevei (Small) B.Boivin Naturaliste Canad. 94: 525 (1967).
Iris versicolor f. virginica (L.) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 978 (1895).
Iris versicolor var. virginica (L.) Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 16: 141 (1877).
Iris virginica var. shrevei (Small) E.S.Anderson Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 23: 469 (1936).
Limniris shrevei (Small) M.B.Crespo, Mart.-Azorín & Mavrodiev Phytotaxa 232: 57 (2015).
Limniris virginica (L.) Rodion. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 92: 552 (2007).
Xiphion virginicum (L.) Alef. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 21: 297 (1863).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Iris virginica L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Iris virginica L. var. virginica	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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