Retain if present. Can be used as part of a screen in a dry site setting.

Water gardens and pond edges.  Moist wildflower gardens.

Moist wildflower garden.

Wildflower garden, meadow.

This iris and I. hexagona were considered to be a single species until recently.  I. savannarum is the most common iris species in Florida. Moist wildflower garden. Sometimes grown under the drain for an air conditioner. Excellent as a wetland edge flower.

Wildflower garden. Mass plantings.

Retain if present in natural setting. Can be grown in a wildflower garden.

Its deeply divided leaves look somewhat like marijuana leaves(Cannabis spp.). Specimen plant in moist areas. There is also a white-flowered variant.

Based on BONAP maps, the ISB maps and specimens, and one author's personal observations, the range of this species appears to be those parts of the coastal plain and adjacent areas of sandhill where there are seepage wetlands.  The range extend from Mississippi to South Carolina.  It may be excluded from the southern half of the Florida peninsula temperatures unsuitable for its reproduction. This grows as a viney shrubl. Can be grown as a shrub if pruned but could also be trained against an arbor or post.

Despite the appearance of the county-based range map, the actual range is limited to the coastal areas. Wildflower garden. Groundcover.

The range of this species is primarily the coastal plain from Texas to North Carolina. A second subspecies (subsp. greenmanii) occurs in the Florida Panhandle where it is endemic and state Endangered Bog gardens, rain gardens, restoration areas.