Hybridizer: | Ginny Spoon |
Year Of Registration: | 2004 |
Seedling Number: | 97-5PG |
Classification: | Tall Bearded (TB) |
Registered Height: | 29 inches (74 cm) |
Bloom Season: | Mid Late |
Bloom Color Description: | Light lavender blue standards; darker lavender blue falls |
Beard Color: | Rufous red, by hairs, white at base, tipped orange red, up-curved fuzzy bifurcate violet horns with lavender |
Space Age Beard Appendages: | Horns |
Style Arm Color: | Light lavender blue, darker midline |
Fragrance: | Slight |
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: | Potomac Fireworks X Warp Drive |
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