Books and Publications on Irises

• Books: General Iris Listings
• Books: Specific Kinds of Irises
• Other Publications

Books on irises in general

• Gwendolyn Anley. Irises, their Culture and Selection. Collingridge, London, 1946.

• Susan Berry. Irises: a romantic history with a guide to cultivation. Running Press, Philadelphia, 1992.

• Philppe Bonduel, Maurice Boussard, and Richard Cayeux. L'ABCdaire des iris. Editions Flammarion, 1997.

• G. E. Cassidy and S. Linnegar. Growing irises. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 1987.

• N. L. Cave. The Iris. Chanticleer Press, New York, 1951.

• Richard CAYEUX. L'iris une fleur royale. Editions Mauryflor, 1996

• G. Dillistone, editor. Dykes on Irises. British Iris Society, Tunbridge Wells, 1930.

• G. Douglass. The Iris, an Ideal Hardy Perennial. American Iris Society. Nashville, 1947.

• William R. Dykes. A Handbook of Garden Irises. Hopkinson, London, 1924.

• K. Glaskow and B. E. Turnbull, editors. Jean Stevens on Irises. New Zealand Iris Society, 1970.

• Graeme Grosvenor. Growing Irises. 1984.

• Fritz Köhlein. Iris. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 1987. Translated by Mollie Comerford Peters from the original German edition: Iris, Ulmer, Stuttgart, 1981.

• R. I. Lynch. The Book of the Iris. J. Lane, London-New York, 1904.

• Brian Mathew. The Iris. Timber Press, Protland, Oregon, 1981. Second edition, 1989.

• William J. McKee and Jamison Harrison. Half Century of Iris. Worcester, 1954.

• Sydney Bancroft Mitchell. Iris for Every Garden. Barrows, New York, 1949, revised 1960.

• Odette Perrier. Les iris, partou en toutes saisons. Editions La Maison Rustique

• Molly Price. The Iris Book. Van Nostrand, 1966. Second edition: Dover, New York, 1973.

• Harry Randall. Irises. Taplinger, New York, 1969.

• L. F. Randolph, editor. Garden Irises. Cayuga Press, Ithaca, New York, 1959, for the American Iris Society.

• Alain Richert. Les Iris. Editions Dargaud, 1980.

• W. Ross. Iris: Goddess of the Garden. Diversity Books, Kansas City, 1966.

• James Marion Shull. Rainbow Fragments. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1911.

• R. E. S. Spender and L. F. Pesel. Iris Culture for Amateurs. Country Life, London, 1937.

• W. Valette. Iris Culture and Hybridizing for Everyone. Adams Press, Chicago, 1961.

• H. van Nes. Iris im Garten. [German] BLV, Munich, 1967.

• Bee Warberton and Melba Hamblen, editors. The World of Irises. American Iris Society, Wicheta, 1978.

• Josh Westrich and Ben Hager. The Iris: the Rainbow Flower. Thames and Hudson, New York,1989.

• Marie Callet and Joseph K. Mertzweiller, editors. The Louisiana Iris: the History and Culture of Five Native American Species and their Hybrids. Texas Gardener Press, Waco, Texas, 1988, for the Society of Louisiana Irises.

• V. A. Cohen. A Guide to the Pacific Coast Irises. American Iris Society, 1967.

• Michael Foster. Bulbous Irises. Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1882.

• C. G. Grey-Wilson. The Genus Iris-Subsection Sibericae. American Iris Society, 1971.

• Suichi Hirao. Hanashobu. [Japanese] Kashima, 1959.

• Akira Horinaka. Iris Laevigata. Japan, 1991?

• M. Kuribayshi and Suichi Hirao. The Japanese Iris: its History, Varieies, and Cultivars. [Japanese] Asahi Shumbin Publ., Tokyo, 1971.

• A. Marchane and Brian Mathew, editors. An Alphabetical Table and Cultivation Guide to the Species of the Genus Iris. British Iris Society, 1974.

• Currier McEwen. Siberian Irises. Society for Siberian Irises, 1981.

• Currier McEwen. The Japanese Iris. University Press of New England, Hanover-London, 1990.

• Currier McEwen The Siberian Iris. Timber Press(?), 1996.

• B. A. Warburton and C. O. Gantz. The Eupogon Iris Species in Cultivation. Median Iris Society, 1972.

• B. A. Warburton, editor. The Median Bearded Irises: Introduction and Varietal Listing. Median Iris Society, 1972.

• E. Zuercher and W. Welch, editors. The World of Little Irises. Three volumes. Dwarf Iris Society, Portland, Indiana, 1968-1971.

• Aril Society International Yearbook. An annual publication of the Aril Society International, a cooperating society of the American Iris Society.

• Bulletin of the American Iris Society. A quarterly journal of the American Iris Society.

• Bulletin of the California Iris Society

• Iris Check List. A decennial publication starting in 1929, of the American Iris Society with annual updates.

• Iris Year Book. An annual publication of the British Iris Society.

• Society for Louisiana Irises Newsletter. A quarterly journal of the Society for Louisiana Irises.

• Medianite. A quarterly journal of the Median Iris Society, a section of the American Iris Society.

• The Reblooming Iris Recorder. A journal of the Reblooming Iris Society, a section of the American Iris Society.

• The Review. A semiannual publication of the Society for Japanese Iris, a section of the American Iris Society.

• Roots. A semiannual journal of the Historic Iris Preservation Society, a section of the American Iris Society.

• The Siberian Iris. A semiannual journal of the Society for Siberian Irises>, a section of the American Iris Society>.

• Signa Newsletter. A publication of Species Iris Group of North America (SIGNA), a section of the American Iris Society.

• Staudengarten. A quarterly journal of the Gesellschaft der Staudenfreunde.