Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Ben Hager
Year Of Registration: 1992
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1993
Seedling Number: SD5184GyBld
Classification: Standard Dwarf Bearded (SDB)
Registered Height: 14 inches (36 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Description: Olive white, faint lavender highlights throughout, tinged and lightly veined olive green on edge of falls and hafts, standards gradually changing halfway up to gilt glint
Beard Color: Olive white, softly tipped light bronze

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 8b
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Amphidiploid
Parentage: SD4999GrY: (Naiad x SD4449GrSf: ((((Joy Bringer x Ornament) x (SD2241A: (Sunny Heart x 1804: ((Evening Storm x Welch H-501) x (Sulina x Melodrama))) x (Blueberry Muffins x Peanuts))) x Flirty Mary) x (((((Derring-Do x (Nest Egg x Brassie)) x Zing) x Golden Fair) x April Fool) x Baby Blessed))) X SD4897Gr#1: ((Flirty Mary x Crystal Bubbles) x SD4449GrYSpSh)

Common names
  • Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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