Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Barbara Wight
Year Of Registration: 1990
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1991
Seedling Number: 86-7
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 29 inches (74 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
White
Bloom Color Description: Ivory white standards; ivory white falls, purple lines and dotting halfway down
Beard Color: Yellow, tipped purple, sometimes with thin purple and white horn
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: White
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: 80-130: (sdlg x Dresden Gold) X Abu Zabad
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Garland, TX
Date: 2022-04-22
Location: Garland, TX
Date: 2022-04-22
Location: Zone7b East Tenn

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