Iridaceae
(THE IRIS FAMILY)
Biota of North America Program
Texas A&M University Bioinformatics Working Group
see the U.S. Checklist for an updated version of this system
Standardized nomenclature following © John T. Kartesz. 1996.
Revision: A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
The Biota of North America Program
of the North Carolina Botanical Garden . This listing features updates (1996)
of BONAP nomenclature, use of common names derived from BONAP data,
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service data on endangered/threatened taxa, and information on
Texas taxa taken from a database developed from Stephan L. Hatch, Kancheepuram N. Gandhi, and Larry E. Brown. 1990. Checklist of the
Vascular Plants of Texas (now in the process of data proofing and 'refining' data merger procedures).
Select a Genus name to query the database:
Alophia Herbert - PROPELLER-FLOWER
Anomatheca Ker-Gawl. - FALSE FREESIA
Aristea Ait. - ARISTEA
Belamcanda Adans. - BLACKBERRY-LILY
Calydorea Herbert - VIOLET-LILY
Chasmanthe N.E. Br. - AFRICAN-CORNFLAG
Crocus L. - CLOTH-OF-GOLD AND CROCUS
Eleutherine Herbert - LABRIMAS-DE-LA-VIRGEN
Freesia Ecklon ex Klatt - FREESIA
Herbertia Sweet - PRAIRIENYMPH
Iris L. - BLUEFLAG AND IRIS
Ixia L. - CORN-LILY
Libertia Spreng. - SNOWY-MERMAID
Neomarica Sprague - FALSE FLAG
Romulea Maratti - SAND-CROCUS
Sparaxis Ker-Gawl. - WANDFLOWER
Trimezia Salisb. ex Herbert - TRIMEZIA
Watsonia P. Mill. - BUGLE-LILY
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Flowering Plant Gateway (see also menu-guided indexed entry using
Family names finder),
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This page, machine-generated using the program bonout3a.ipf,
is an experimental product of collaborative research involving the
Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group and the
Biota of North America Program. Comments/corrections can be sent to
BONAP for nomenclatural matters or, for web-related items, the TAMUBIWG.
All distribution/diversity mapping used by this system was developed by Erich Schneider of the
Texas A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. Last updated on: 10/20/98