Hybridizer: | Paul Black |
Year Of Registration: | 2021 |
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): | 2021 |
Seedling Number: | Y170B |
Classification: | Tall Bearded (TB) |
Registered Height: | 31 inches (79 cm) |
Bloom Season: | Early Early Mid Mid |
Flower Form: | Bubble Ruffled |
Bloom Color Classification: | Purple |
Flower Patterns: | Bitone |
Bloom Color Description: | Dark indigo purple standards, narrow band of dark red purple; dark indigo purple falls becoming lighter toward edge, black purple haft edges, white around beards, veined and sanded near black, chalky silver white on reverse of petals |
Beard Color: | Light violet, dark ochre in throat, mid ochre in middle and at end |
Style Arm Color: | Dark indigo purple, crests edged dark red purple |
Fragrance: | Pronounced 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 9b |
Flowers: | Showy Fragrant |
Underground structures: | Rhizome |
Propagation: Seeds: | Will not come true from seed |
Propagation: Other methods: | Division |
Ploidy: | Tetraploid |
Parentage: | V159P: (S146D: (Toast of the Town x Absolute Zero) x Multnomah Falls) X Creature of the Night |
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