Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Opal Wulf
Year Of Registration: 2003
Seedling Number: 94-29-5
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 32 inches (81 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Bloom Color Description: Dauphin violet standards; campanula violet falls, lighter at haft, edge darkening to spectrum violet, soft blue white haft netting
Beard Color: Dauphin violet at end, white, to light yellow in throat, extending as upturned violet horn
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: Dauphin violet
Fragrance: Pronounced
Spicy

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: Thornbird X Deity

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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