Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Margaret Buckner
Year Of Registration: 1999
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1999
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 37 inches (94 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Bloom Color Classification: Yellow
Bloom Color Description: Medium butter yellow standards, midrib blended lemon; butter yellow falls, paling to cream center
Beard Color: Yellow orange, end cream, extending as lemon yellow spoon or flounce
Space Age Beard Appendages: Spoons
Flounces
Style Arm Color: Butter yellow

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: Sky Hooks X unknown
Child plants: one child plant

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  • Tall Bearded Iris
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Date: 2016-05-10
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2021-05-01

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