Description from
Flora of China
Iris desertorum Gueldenstaedt; I. gueldenstaedtiana Lepechin; I. spuria Linnaeus subsp. halophila (Pallas) B. Mathew & Wendelbo; I. spuria var. halophila (Pallas) Sims.
Flowers yellow. 2 n = 44, 66, 88.
Grasslands, hillsides, wet salty soils. Gansu, Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Mongolia, Russia; SW Asia, E Europe (Romania, Ukraine)].
