Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Bee Warburton
Year Of Registration: 1982
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1983
Seedling Number: 3Z-1
Classification: Standard Dwarf Bearded (SDB)
Registered Height: 14 inches (38 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: Smoky lavender standards, plicata edging; lavender falls, smoky lavender in center, tan green plicata markings on hafts, violet dottings around edge
Beard Color: Blended brown lavender
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 8b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Amphidiploid
Parentage: 16X-24: (Jennie Grace x 28U-1: (8S-6, inv. luminata/plicata lines, x (84N-3: ((Blue Denim x (blue pumila x Spanish Peaks)) x (((Little Shadow x Zwanimir) x Blue Denim) x Truce)) x 36N0-2: ((((white TB x blue pumila) x sibling) x (Love Affair x I. cretica)) x (Knotty Pine x Truce))))) X Soft Air
Child plants: one child plant

Common names
  • Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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