Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Lloyd Zurbrigg
Year Of Registration: 2003
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2003
Seedling Number: OO-26-1-2
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Rebloom
Bloom Color Classification: Red
Yellow
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: Yellow standards with light red overlay; deep yellow falls overlaid red, deeper toward edge, hairline lighter edge, slightly deeper red centerline
Beard Color: Tangerine orange, paler at end, small short horn
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: Yellow with light red overlay, red center streak, pale lip
Fragrance: Slight

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: Northward Ho X Rock Star
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2023-05-21
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-13
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-06-03
Location: My garden
Date: May 26, 2021
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-27
Location: Superstition Garden - Cathey's Valley, CA
Date: April 18, 2015
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-05-25
Location: My garden
Date: 2020-05-23
Location: Home garden
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-25
First year bloom. Continues to bloom after rain.
Location: Home garden
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: My garden
Date: 5-16-2021
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: October 2013
The Fall blossom is even prettier than the Spring blossom!!
Uploaded by Henhouse
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-27
Location: Superstition Garden - Cathey's Valley, CA
Date: April 18, 2015
Location: Home garden
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: April 2015
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: October 2013
Check out the double appendages on this space-ager!!
Uploaded by Misawa77
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: May 2013
Vivid coloring on this one!

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.
Location: Catheys Valley CA
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi
Discussion Threads about this plant
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True colors... by evelyninthegarden May 22, 2023 1:28 AM 1

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