Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Glutzbeck
Year Of Registration: 1939
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1940
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Bloom Color Classification: Yellow
Flower Patterns: Self
Awards: Honorable Mention: 1939
Award of Merit: 1942
Dykes Memorial Medal: 1944

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
Parentage: ((W. R. Dykes x cream seedling) x (Mrs. Valerie West x Depute Nomblot)) x (Vert Galant x yellow seedling) x Depute Nomblot))
Child plants: 35 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto California
Date: 2023-04-20
Uploaded by Neela

Dykes medal 1944
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2010-05-21

Date: c. 1951
illustration from the 1951 catalog, Cooley's Gardens, Silverton,
Location: Southeast Nebraska
Date: Spring 2013
Taken at the Sass Memorial Garden near Omaha

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