Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Monty Byers
Year Of Registration: 1989
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1990
Seedling Number: D67-1-B
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 37 inches (94 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Mid Late
Late
Bloom Color Classification: Silver/Grey
Violet
Bloom Color Description: Light blue violet lightly suffused red violet at midrib, sprinkled overall by suffused gold underveining culminating in soft green gold edge at top; pale bluish silver falls, green gold texture veining at hafts, suffused green gold edge
Beard Color: Medium violet blue, tipped yellow, blue violet horns
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: Silvery, violet stigmatic lips
Fragrance: Pronounced
Sweet

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: Tudor England X Sky Hooks
Child plants: 10 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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