Plant derived from Sarobetsu wetland, Hokkaido, Japan Kew Accepted Name Iris ensata .mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps} Thunb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 328 (1794). Japanese Name ノハナショウブ, 野花菖蒲 Korean Name 꽃창포 Taxonomy Family Iridaceae Subfamily Iridoideae Tribe Irideae Genus Iris Distribution SE. Siberia to Japan (30 YAK 31 AMU KHA PRM 32 KAZ 36 CHM CHN CHS 38 JAP KOR 40 ASS whm (72) ont (75) pen rho ver (78) mry vrg) Lifeform Rhizome geophyte or hel.
Synonyms Homotypic synonyms Limniris ensata ( Thunb.) Rodion., Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 92: 552 (2007). Heterotypic synonyms Iris graminea Thunb., Fl. Jap.: 34 (1784), nom. illeg. Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem., Ill. Hort. 5: t. 157 (1858). Iris laevigata var. hortensis Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 26: 522 (1880). Iris laevigata var. kaempferi ( Siebold ex Lem.) Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 26: 521 (1880). Iris kaempferi var. seraph W.Bull ex Mast., Gard. Chron., n.s., 16: 86 (1881). Iris smithii Lynch, Book of the Iris: 68 (1904), pro syn. Iris kaempferi var. hortensis ( Maxim.) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 23: 95 (1909). Iris kaempferi var. spontanea Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 23: 94 (1909). Iris ensata var. hortensis ( Maxim.) Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Japan, red. ed.: 1590 (1931). Iris ensata var. spontanea ( Makino) Nakai ex Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Japan, rev. ed.: 1590 (1931). Iris ensata f. alba Y.N.Lee, Fl. Korea: 1163 (1996), no type indicated.