Bearded iris
Iris × germanica L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 30 cm
Iridaceae
Also called Blue Flower De Luce, German Iris, German bearded iris, German iris
Formerly Iris × alba, Iris × amoena, Iris × atroviolacea, Iris × australis, and 33 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to March in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NW. Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–4 ft; Wikipedia 120–120 cm
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2 ft; Wikipedia 30–30 cm
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
ElderFlowers April to May, when this does not
Glossy abeliaFlowers April to May, when this does not
Japanese honeysuckleFlowers April to May, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers April to May, when this does not
PomegranateFlowers April to May, when this does not
PurslaneFlowers April to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Estonian
- aediiris, aed-võhumõõk
- Czech
- kosatec florentský, kosatec německý
- Spanish
- Lirio morado
- Russian
- Ирис германский
- French
- Iris d'Allemagne
- Finnish
- saksankurjenmiekka
- German
- Deutsche Schwertlilie
- Lithuanian
- Mėlynžiedis vilkdalgis
- Japanese
- ドイツアヤメ, ジャーマンアイリス
- Slovak
- kosatec nemecký
- Swedish
- trädgårdsiris, Tyskiris
- Dutch
- Blauwe lis
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Iris × germanica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.