Data specific to Irises (Edit)
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

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
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Potomac Fireworks X Warp Drive

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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