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§1 Plant

Iris brevicaulis Raf.

vernacular zigzag iris — species · Iridaceae


USDA
IRBR2
GBIF
5298850
Rank
species
zigzag iris (Iris brevicaulis)
Platephotograph · Andy NewmanCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Iridaceae Juss.
Genus
Iris
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 101 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 101 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 101 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N
Florida view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 19 N
Indiana view state ↗ 8 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
Missouri view state ↗ 10 N
Ohio view state ↗ 11 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N
Texas view state ↗ 6 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/IRBR2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5298850 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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