Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Tom Burseen
Year Of Registration: 2005
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2007
Seedling Number: 02-155B
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Laced
Bloom Color Classification: Cream
Purple
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: Cream standards heavily marked lilac purple, becoming darker at edges; cream falls with lilac purple plicata rims
Beard Color: White, ruffled white flounces marked in lilac purple plicata pattern
Space Age Beard Appendages: Flounces
Style Arm Color: Dark lilac
Fragrance: 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: Momentous Occasion X A-197: (97-571: (Haute Couture x Joan's Party) x 97-257: (Anne Boleyn x 95-110: (Gnu x All Aflutter)))
Child plants: 4 child plants

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