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Hybridizer: Tom Burseen
Year Of Registration: 2003
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2004
Seedling Number: 99-283AZ
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 37 inches (94 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Flared
Bloom Color Classification: White
Yellow
Flower Patterns: Debby Rairdon
Bloom Color Description: Lemon yellow standards; white falls, 1/4" bright yellow rim
Beard Color: Dark buttercup yellow, white flounce ending in tattered yellow spoon
Space Age Beard Appendages: Flounces
Style Arm Color: Bright yellow
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2008
Award of Merit: 2012

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
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: 95-280: (Triple Whammy x All Aflutter) X 96-206: (Part Prude x Triffid)
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Tall Bearded Iris

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Location: Chino Valley Arizona
Date: 2022-05-08
Location: Durham, NC
Date: May, 2015
Location: Durham, NC
Date: May, 2015
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2022-05-27
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Huge 9" blooms!
Location: Chino Valley Arizona
Date: 2021-05-17
Location: Coarsegold, California 
Date: 4-17-2020
Abby and Me 4-17-2020
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2016-04-23
Photo by avmoran

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris. Used with permission.
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