Does the fan look identical to your other iris fans? Do you allow the beardeds to form seed pods?

It looks very much like an iris from your picture. If it is a seedling bearded it will form a rhizome.

My nearby iris plants havent bloomed in quite a few years... I have just started to re-claim that area of the garden. But I do have a few bearded irises that have bloomed, and I do not always remove the spent flowers, so they may have produced seeds.

The leaves do fan much like an iris, but they seem floppier, and droop over a bit, where even the long-neglected irises are firm and tall. Maybe they are just younger plants. I will follow their growth.

It looks a lot like my Iris tectorum. However, it is more likely to be I. cristata, a native iris (the two species are related) Just a guess, but either would be interesting additions.

my black berry lilies kinda look like that.
They are a Iris, here is more pictures of them in the link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Blackberry Lily Database

This post was edited by pdsavage on Thu, Jul 31, 14 at 7:35

It does look to have a creeping stalk like I cristata, and that type Iris doesn't bloom without sufficient sun, which considering it's a woodland species is surprising. That's why most colonies only have a few to no blooming plants.