Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Tom Burseen
Year Of Registration: 2004
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2005
Seedling Number: 99-411A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Flared
Bloom Color Classification: Wine
Flower Patterns: Bitone
Bloom Color Description: Rose purple standards, light spanish orange base; dark grey purple falls, fine indian pink rims
Beard Color: Light spanish orange tipped cream, very large dark grey purple flounces edged indian pink
Space Age Beard Appendages: Flounces
Style Arm Color: Light spanish orange
Fragrance: Pronounced
Musky

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: 95-196: (Monty's Sweet Blue x Christopherson PF-2: (Momentum x Sky Hooks)) X Bewilderbeast
Child plants: 11 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2021-05-02
Dappled shade, rounder form on a later bloom.
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-08-23
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2016-05-07
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2016-04-30
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
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Date: 2018-05-18
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Date: 2018-05-18
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Location: Elk Grove, CA
Date: 2015-04-18
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