Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
It grows wild in 12 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7 in to 9 in tall, 10 in wide
- Flowers
- Blue, yellow, pink, purple and white
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 10 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 15 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena geranii), Digger bee (Anthophora ursina), Cuckoo bee (Holcopasites heliopsis), Cuckoo bee (Nomada denticulata)
Grows well with
Robin's-plantain
Wild Strawberry
Bird's-foot Violet
Narrowleaf Sundrops
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Wild Geranium
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Iris cristata.