DaisyDo said:It's a beauty! I looked up Iris pallida in the database and I am curious about the fact that no progeny is listed for it. Does it not hybridize with other iris species?
The Child Plant and Parentage fields only create hyperlinks for plants that have a cultivar name. Not sure why that is. It came up once in a discussion amongst the plant admins and Dave just said that species don't generate hyperlinks in those fields without getting into any real detail as to why. , I assume it's a technical issue.
Nonetheless, it's easy enough to find the plants that have Iris pallida listed in their parentage. Just type pallida in the Parentage box of the Advanced search engine and you'll get a long list:
https://garden.org/plants/grou...
Can be done for all of the other wild species that may have been used in iris hybridizing as well.
For what it's worth, Iris pallida was one of the foundational species used in the creation of bearded iris hybrids and the vast majority of them trace their ancestry back to it to one degree or another. There are exceptions, most of the early MDB's were derived from Iris pumila and it's relatives and have no genes from Iris pallida, I have
Species X Iris (Iris 'Wine Dark Sea') growing in my garden and it doesn't trace to Iris pallida, etc.
Unfortunately, most hybridizers didn't keep breeding records until the 1930's or even later so, if you try to trace a plant's ancestry back to the original wild species, you usually hit a dead end long before you get there.
