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Iris virginica
These elegant natives are medium size plants, growing to four feet tall. They are pale blue to purple flowers and are the only large irises growing wild in Florida. Their leaves are narrow and sword-like, and up to 2 1/2 feet long. The leaves are pointed and flattened. They arise fan-like from a single base.There are seven Iris species that occur in Florida .
They grow from stout underground rhizomes, and occasionally occur in swamps and marshes from the northern and central peninsula west to the central panhandle.
Virginia iris may have been one of the iris species used by the Seminole to treat “shock following alligator-bite .