Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Reinhardt
Year Of Registration: 1955
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1956
Seedling Number: 51-121
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 44 inches (112 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Mid Late
Bloom Color Description: Pearl white, faint overcast of pink in falls
Beard Color: Pale yellow, tipped white

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: Snow Flurry X (Chantilly x (Snow Flurry x Madame Maurice Lassailly))
Child plants: 4 child plants

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

« Add a new plant to the database

» Search the Irises Database: by characteristics or by cultivar name

« See the general plant entry for Irises (Iris)

« Visit the Irises forum

« The Irises Database Front Page

« The Plants Database Front Page

Today's site banner is by KGFerg and is called "Epimedium sulphureum"

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.