Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Classification: Species

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Plant Height: 25-30 cm
Plant Spread: 20 -30 cm
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Resistances: Salt tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Scarify seeds: Impervious seed coats. Shake in dry sharp sand or nick carefully with a file.
Days to germinate: germination is erratic
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Species Iris
  • Alaska Flag
  • Arctic Iris
  • Alaska Iris
  • Iris
  • Beach Flag
  • Wild Dwarf Iris
  • Hairy Iris
  • Beachhead Iris
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Iris setosa
  • Synonym: Iris brachycuspis
  • Synonym: Iris setosa var. nasuensis
  • Synonym: Iris setosa f. platyrhyncha
  • Synonym: Iris setosa var. setosa

Photo Gallery
Location: near Vladivostok, Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2011-06-27
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-23
Location: Russia, Krasnodar region, Novokubansk
Date: 2021-05-17
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2011-06-27
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-24
Seed pod forming on Iris setosa.
Location: RHS Harlow Carr alpine house, Yorkshire
Date: 2018-06-11
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-05-15
Location: Seward Alaska
Date: June 2008
Growing wild in Alaska
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-10
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-13
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2009-06-28
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2021-05-20
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2021-05-18
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-06-16
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-06-16
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Photo by touchofsky
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-05-13
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-13
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2021-05-20
Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2007-06-16
Beachhead iris (Iris setosa). Called Bristle-pointed iris also. W
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-06-24
1 year old plant

Photo Courtesy of Shikoku Garden Inc.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Iris City Gardens

Photo Courtesy of Shikoku Garden Inc.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Comments:
  • Posted by scvirginia on Jun 25, 2020 9:30 PM concerning plant:
    Description from the 1933 catalog, Royal Iris Gardens (J. C. Nicholls, Jr., Camillus, NY), p.75:
    Other American Species
    SETOSA (Collected in Alaska). 26". A very distinct and handsome Species from Alaska, with minute bristle-like standards. The Falls are very large and heart-shaped, a rich blue purple in color, with a distinct white patch at base of blade. A strong grower with broad grey-green foliage. Very rare, and apparently not listed by any other Iris grower in America. We take great pleasure in offering it to the public.
Plant Events from our members
dragonfetti On March 12, 2015 Miscellaneous Event
None have sprouted.
dragonfetti On February 4, 2015 Seeds sown
started 72 seeds in planter trays.
dragonfetti On December 9, 2014 Obtained plant
Received from Eden Brothers for sowing spring 2015
MrsBinWY On September 22, 2019 Transplanted
20 in the back yard rain garden
MrsBinWY On May 19, 2019 Seeds germinated
3
MrsBinWY On December 31, 2018 Seeds sown
nick, soak 48 hours & WS in milk jug 25 seeds from ishareflowers (from#18) (ended up not getting sown until 1-3-19)
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