Iris

Accepted species 332 Documented here 91 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 332 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Iris pseudacorus L. 4,527 documented
Iris versicolor L. 1,071 documented
Iris foetidissima L. 962 documented
Iris douglasiana Herb. 673 documented
Iris pumila L. 592 documented
Iris missouriensis Nutt. 577 documented
Iris sibirica L. 531 documented
Iris cristata Aiton 509 documented
Iris virginica L. 432 documented
Iris ruthenica Ker Gawl. 369 documented
Iris macrosiphon Torr. 247 documented
Iris tenax Douglas ex Lindl. 231 documented
Iris verna L. 204 documented
Iris fernaldii R.C.Foster 179 documented
Iris aphylla L. 168 documented
Iris domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb. 162 documented
Iris setosa Pall. ex Link 117 documented
Iris hartwegii Baker 113 documented
Iris humilis Georgi 104 documented
Iris planifolia (Mill.) T.Durand & Schinz 104 documented
Iris savannarum Small 103 documented
Iris lutescens Lam. 101 documented
Iris lacustris Nutt. 94 documented
Iris japonica Thunb. 93 documented
Iris sanguinea Hornem. 90 documented
Iris tuberosa L. 85 documented
Iris graminea L. 75 documented
Iris fulva Ker Gawl. 70 documented
Iris tigridia Bunge ex Ledeb. 68 documented
Iris chrysophylla Howell 65 documented
Iris halophila Pall. 65 documented
Iris juncea Poir. 62 documented
Iris variegata L. 59 documented
Iris unguicularis Poir. 55 documented
Iris × florentina L. 52 documented
Iris ensata Thunb. 48 documented
Iris prismatica Pursh 46 documented
Iris hookeri Penny ex G.Don 43 documented
Iris latifolia (Mill.) Voss 42 documented
Iris orientalis Mill. 41 documented
Iris sintenisii Janka 41 documented
Iris xiphium L. 40 documented
Iris giganticaerulea Small 39 documented
Iris tridentata Pursh 38 documented
Iris longipetala Herb. 36 documented
Iris tenuissima Dykes 35 documented
Iris reichenbachiana Klatt 34 documented
Iris brevicaulis Raf. 33 documented
Iris suaveolens Boiss. & Reut. 32 documented
Iris reticulata M.Bieb. 29 documented
Iris laevigata Fisch. 27 documented
Iris glaucescens Bunge 23 documented
Iris spuria L. 23 documented
Iris uniflora Pall. ex Link 23 documented
Iris reichenbachii Heuff. 21 documented
Iris kemaonensis Wall. ex D.Don 20 documented
Iris formosana Ohwi 17 documented
Iris purdyi Eastw. 16 documented
Iris lactea Pall. 15 documented
Iris junonia Schott 12 documented
Iris tenuifolia Pall. 11 documented
Iris pontica Zapał. 10 documented
Iris furcata M.Bieb. 9 documented
Iris potaninii Maxim. 9 documented
Iris rossii Baker 9 documented
Iris speculatrix Hance 9 documented
Iris × germanica L. 8 documented
Iris pallida Lam. 8 documented
Iris pseudonotha Galushko 8 documented
Iris munzii R.C.Foster 7 documented
Iris tectorum Maxim. 7 documented
Iris filifolia Boiss. 6 documented
Iris hermona Dinsm. 6 documented
Iris imbricata Lindl. 6 documented
Iris atrofusca Baker 5 documented
Iris innominata L.F.Hend. 5 documented
Iris mariae Barbey 5 documented
Iris milesii Baker ex Foster 5 documented
Iris sabina N.Terracc. 5 documented
Iris tenuis S.Watson 5 documented
Iris arenaria Waldst. & Kit. 4 documented
Iris gracilipes A.Gray 4 documented
Iris loczyi Kanitz 4 documented
Iris nigricans Dinsm. 4 documented
Iris pseudopumila Tineo 4 documented
Iris adriatica Trinajstić ex Mitic 3 documented
Iris bismarckiana E.Dammann & Sprenger 3 documented
Iris grant-duffii Baker 3 documented
Iris haynei Baker 3 documented
Iris hexagona Walter 3 documented
Iris palaestina (Baker) Barbey 3 documented
Iris acutiloba C.A.Mey. 2 below the evidence gate
Iris colchica Kem.-Nath. 2 below the evidence gate
Iris dichotoma Pall. 2 below the evidence gate
Iris iberica Steven 2 below the evidence gate
Iris kolpakowskiana Regel 2 below the evidence gate
Iris marsica I.Ricci & Colas. 2 below the evidence gate
Iris oxypetala Bunge 2 below the evidence gate
Iris tibetica (Dykes) Bolt. 2 below the evidence gate
Iris alberti Regel 1 below the evidence gate
Iris attica Boiss. & Heldr. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris bicapitata Colas. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris clarkei Baker ex Hook.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris goniocarpa Baker 1 below the evidence gate
Iris histrioides (G.F.Wilson) S.Arn. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris ivanovae Doronkin 1 below the evidence gate
Iris petrana Dinsm. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris tingitana Boiss. & Reut. 1 below the evidence gate
Iris × brzhezitzky Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × caeciliae Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × flexicaulis Small 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × fulvala Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × koenigii Sosn. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × nelsonii Randolph 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × neumayeri Janch. ex Holub 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × robusta E.S.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × sancti-cyri J.Rousseau 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × setosothungbergii H.Koidz. ex T.Shimizu 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × sinistra Sosn. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × thompsonii R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × vinicolor Small 0 below the evidence gate
Iris × violipurpurea Small 0 below the evidence gate
Iris afghanica Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris aitchisonii (Baker) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris albomarginata R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris alexeenkoi Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris almaatensis Pavlov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ampliflora Y.E.Xiao, F.Y.Yu & X.F.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Iris anguifuga Y.T.Zhao & X.J.Xue 0 below the evidence gate
Iris antilibanotica Dinsm. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris aschersonii Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris assadiana Chaudhary, G.Kirkw. & C.Weymouth 0 below the evidence gate
Iris atropurpurea Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris aucheri (Baker) Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Iris auranitica Dinsm. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris austrotschatkalica Tojibaev, F.Karimov & Turgunov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris avromanica Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bakeriana Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris baldshuanica O.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris barbatula Noltie & K.Y.Guan 0 below the evidence gate
Iris barnumiae Foster & Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris basaltica Dinsm. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris benacensis A.Kern. ex Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Iris binata Schur 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bloudowii Ledeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris boissieri Henriq. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bostrensis Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bracteata S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bucharica Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bulleyana Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris bungei Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris cabulica Gilli 0 below the evidence gate
Iris calabra (N.Terracc.) Peruzzi 0 below the evidence gate
Iris calcicola Z.C.Lu, Z.P.Huang & Yan Liu 0 below the evidence gate
Iris camillae Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris capnoides (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris carterorum B.Mathew & Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris cathayensis Migo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris caucasica M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris cedreti Dinsm. ex Chaudhary 0 below the evidence gate
Iris chrysographes Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris chrysopetala Sennikov, F.O.Khass. & Pulatov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris collettii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris confusa Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Iris crocea Jacquem. ex R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris cuniculiformis Noltie & K.Y.Guan 0 below the evidence gate
Iris curvifolia Y.T.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Iris cycloglossa Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris dabashanensis C.A.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Iris damascena Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Iris danfordiae (Baker) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris darwasica Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Iris decora Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris delavayi Micheli 0 below the evidence gate
Iris doabensis B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Iris dolichosiphon Noltie 0 below the evidence gate
Iris drepanophylla Aitch. & Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris edomensis Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Iris farashae Güner 0 below the evidence gate
Iris farreri Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ferdowsii Joharchi & Memariani 0 below the evidence gate
Iris forrestii Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris fosteriana Aitch. & Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris furseorum T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris galatica W.Irving 0 below the evidence gate
Iris gatesii Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris graeberiana Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Iris griffithii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris grossheimii Woronow ex Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris haussknechtii Bornm. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris hellenica Mermygkas 0 below the evidence gate
Iris henryi Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris heracleana (J.Mart.Rodr. & M.B.Crespo) Fennane 0 below the evidence gate
Iris heweri Grey-Wilson & B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Iris hippolyti (Vved.) Kamelin 0 below the evidence gate
Iris histrio Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris hoogiana Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris hookeriana Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris hymenospatha B.Mathew & Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris inconspicua (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris junzifengensis S.P.Chen, Xin Y.Chen & Liang Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kamelinii Alexeeva 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kashmiriana Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ketzkhovelii G.N.Matveev 0 below the evidence gate
Iris khassanovii Tojibaev & Turginov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kirkwoodiae Chaudhary 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kobasensis Prodan 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kobayashii Kitag. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kopetdagensis Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris koreana Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Iris korolkowii Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kurbanovii F.O.Khass. & Rakhimova 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kuschakewiczii B.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris kuschkensis Grey-Wilson & B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Iris latistyla Y.T.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Iris lazica Albov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris leptophylla Lingelsh. ex H.Limpr. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris leptorrhiza (Vved.) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris lineata Foster ex Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Iris linifolia (Regel) O.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris linifoliiformis (Khalk.) Tojibaev & Turginov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris lokiae Alexeeva 0 below the evidence gate
Iris longiscapa Ledeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris lortetii Barbey 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ludwigii Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris lycotis Woronow 0 below the evidence gate
Iris maculata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris magnifica Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris mandshurica Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris maracandica (Vved.) Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris marivanica Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate
Iris masiae Leichtlin ex Dykes 0 below the evidence gate
Iris meda Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Iris microglossa Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris minutoaurea Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Iris mzchetica Rodion. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris nantouensis S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Iris narbutii O.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris narcissiflora Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Iris narynensis O.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris neoensata Y.N.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Iris neosetosa Y.N.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Iris nicolai (Vved.) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris notha M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris nusairiensis Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Iris odaesanensis Y.N.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Iris odontostyla B.Mathew & Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris orchioides Carrière 0 below the evidence gate
Iris orjenii Bräuchler & Cikovac 0 below the evidence gate
Iris pamphylica Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Iris paradoxa Steven 0 below the evidence gate
Iris paropamisensis T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris parvula (Vved.) Sennikov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris perrieri Simonet ex N.Service 0 below the evidence gate
Iris persica L. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris peshmeniana Güner & T.Hall 0 below the evidence gate
Iris petri F.O.Khass., Rakhimova & Achilova 0 below the evidence gate
Iris platyptera B.Mathew & Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris polakii Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Iris popovii (Vved.) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris porphyrochrysa Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris postii Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Iris proantha Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Iris probstii C.A.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Iris psammocola Y.T.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Iris pseudocapnoides Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate
Iris pseudocaucasica Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris pseudomeda Salimb. & H.Saeidi 0 below the evidence gate
Iris pskemensis Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate
Iris qinghainica Y.T.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ramsayi T.Hall & B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Iris regis-uzziae Feinbrun 0 below the evidence gate
Iris relicta Colas. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris revoluta Colas. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris rodionenkoi (Lazkov & Naumenko) T.Hall 0 below the evidence gate
Iris rosenbachiana Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Iris rudolphii F.O.Khass., Esankulov & Achilova 0 below the evidence gate
Iris rutherfordii J.Mart.Rodr., P.Vargas, Carine & Jury 0 below the evidence gate
Iris sari Schott ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris scariosa Willd. ex Link 0 below the evidence gate
Iris schachtii Markgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris schelkownikowii (Fomin) Fomin 0 below the evidence gate
Iris schmakovii Alexeeva 0 below the evidence gate
Iris seminaturalis Niketic, Tomovic & Siljak-Yak. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris serotina Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris setina Colas. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris sisianica Zubov & Bondarenko 0 below the evidence gate
Iris songarica Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris sophenensis (Foster) B.Mathew & Güner 0 below the evidence gate
Iris sprengeri Siehe 0 below the evidence gate
Iris staintonii H.Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Iris statellae Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris stenophylla Hausskn. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Iris stocksii (Baker) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris stolonifera Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris straussii Leichtlin ex Micheli 0 below the evidence gate
Iris subdecolorata Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris subdichotoma Y.T.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Iris susiana L. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris svetlanae (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris swensoniana Chaudhary, G.Kirkw. & C.Weymouth 0 below the evidence gate
Iris tadshikorum (Vved.) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris taochia Woronow ex Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris tarhunensis (Borzì & Mattei) Pamp. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris thoroldii Baker ex Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris timofejewii Woronow 0 below the evidence gate
Iris tschandalasica Urusov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris tubergeniana Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris typhifolia Kitag. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris urmiensis Jekyll & E.T.Cook 0 below the evidence gate
Iris vartanii Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris ventricosa Pall. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris vicaria Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris vicariopsis T.Hall 0 below the evidence gate
Iris victoris F.O.Khass., Khuzhan. & Rakhimova 0 below the evidence gate
Iris vorobievii N.S.Pavlova 0 below the evidence gate
Iris vvedenskyi Nevski ex Woronow & Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Iris wallisiae T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris warleyensis Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris wattii Baker ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris wendelboi Grey-Wilson & B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Iris westii Dinsm. 0 below the evidence gate
Iris willmottiana Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Iris wilsonii C.H.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Iris winkleri Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Iris winogradowii Fomin 0 below the evidence gate
Iris xanthochlora Wendelbo 0 below the evidence gate
Iris yebrudii Dinsm. ex Chaudhary 0 below the evidence gate
Iris yedisuensis Yıld. & Kılıç 0 below the evidence gate
Iris zagrica B.Mathew & Zarrei 0 below the evidence gate
Iris zaprjagajevii (N.V.Abramov) T.Hall & Seisums 0 below the evidence gate
Iris zetterlundii Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.