Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Mary Lee Fortner
Year Of Registration: 2016
Seedling Number: BBGP-02-07-002
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Description: White standards, throat lavender; white lavender falls
Beard Color: Orange in throat, purple yellow middle, ends white, long spoons with white tips
Space Age Beard Appendages: Spoons
Style Arm Color: White, hint of lavender
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: Glacier Point X Bubble Bubble

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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