Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Tom Burseen
Year Of Registration: 2019
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2020
Seedling Number: 16-699A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 35 inches (89 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Description: Pale blue standards, washed violet blue at center and base; lobelia blue falls, heavy violet blue wash and veins darkest along edges
Beard Color: Orange in throat, yellow in middle, light blue at end, short fuzzy violet blue horns
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: Pale blue, washed violet blue at center and base

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: 14-338: (Hopen fer Rain x 12-513: (10-398: (Beyond Bubbles x 08-489: (Dance Recital x 05-287: (02-14: (Fogbound x A-303, see Different Take) x 03-288: (01-224: (97-273: (Gnu x 94-91: (Cloud Ballet x Deity)) x 99-484, see Materialistic Mama) x 01-167: (Pieces of April x 97-479: (Lackawanna x 95-94: (Deity x 91-345: (Blackout x Inaugural Ball)))))))) x 10-540: (08-537: (Paul Black x 06-23: (Sapphire Halo x Yuppy Puppy)) x Hot Mess))) X Modern Tale

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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