page_title: Iris uniflora
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Iris uniflora / Taxonomy
context_page_description: Iris uniflora is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Limniris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from Russia, Mongolia, China and Korea. It has thin grass-like leaves and stems, and purple, blue-purple or violet flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
context_section_description: It is written as 单花鸢尾 in Chinese script and 'dan hua yuan wei' in China.
  It has the common name of 'Rock Iris' in Tibet and the Tibetan name of 'Yuki Ozawa'.
  It is also known as 'Single-flowered Iris' in Russia.
  It was first widely published by Peter Simon Pallas in 'Jahrbücher der Gewächskunde' (published in Berlin and Leipzig) in 1820. But was first found and named by Link but he did not publish it widely.
  It was illustrated later in The Garden (magazine) page 187 on 5 September 1896.
  In 1892, it was thought to be a variety of Iris ruthenica (Iris ruthenica var. uniflora) by Baker (in his book, Handbook Irid. 4. 1892). which he noted was a form with narrow leaves (2—6 mm wide at anthesis, ca. 10 mm wide in fruit.
  It was described as Iris uniflora var. caricina by Kitagawa in the Botanical Magazine (of Tokyo) in 1935. Which is still considered a variant by the American Iris Society. In 1981, Brian Mathew notes in his book 'The Iris' that "The Flora of the USSR separates this as a distinct species, distinguished from Iris ruthenica ".
  Iris uniflora is a tentatively accepted name by the RHS.
caption: dried specimen from Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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