§1 Plant
Iris verna L.
vernacular dwarf violet iris — species · Iridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Iridaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Iris
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 241 counties across 16 states/territories§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 241 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Calhoun 01015
- Cherokee 01019
- Clarke 01025
- Cleburne 01029
- Conecuh 01035
- Coosa 01037
- Cullman 01043
- DeKalb 01049
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Jefferson 01073
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Mobile 01097
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Shelby 01117
- St. Clair 01115
- Sumter 01119
- Talladega 01121
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Winston 01133
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Avery 37011
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Buncombe 37021
- Burke 37023
- Caldwell 37027
- Carteret 37031
- Catawba 37035
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lincoln 37109
- Macon 37113
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pamlico 37137
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Transylvania 37175
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Watauga 37189
- Wayne 37191
- Wilkes 37193
- Wilson 37195
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Craig 51045
- Culpeper 51047
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Greensville 51081
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince George 51149
- Pulaski 51155
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/IRVE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5297999 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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