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 |
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 |
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