Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Greig Lapham
Year Of Registration: 1937
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1937
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Gold
Wine
Flower Patterns: Variegata
Awards: Honorable Mention: 1938
Award of Merit: 1940

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
Parentage: Rameses X Jerry
Child plants: 25 child plants

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Common names
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Uploaded by AlanJ
Location: My garden
Date: 2020-04-28
Location: Zone 6
Date: 2020-05-24
Frank Adams - Casa_de_Fanska
Location: Bed E
Date: 2022-05-25
Location: Zone 6
Date: 2020-05-20
Frank Adams - Casa_de_Fanska
Uploaded by MargieNY
Location: filbert adjacent
Date: 20230524
shady
Uploaded by AlanJ
Location: Bed E
Date: 2022-05-25
Uploaded by KatsI2
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2019-04-21
Uploaded by avmoran
Location: Minneapolis Mn
Date: May 2021
Location: filbert adjacent
Date: 20230524
shady
Uploaded by MargieNY
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2016/05/30

Need to divide this fall they are getting crowded
Location: property line
Date: 2018-06-01
sunny
Location: Foothills of the Sierras, California
Date: 2023-06-04
Photo taken about 4 p.m. in the shade.
Location: filbert adjacent
Date: 20230524
shady
Location: property line
Date: 2018-06-01
sunny

Photo courtesy of Bluebird Haven Iris Garden
Uploaded by MargieNY

Date: c. 1949
illustration from the 1949 catalog, Cooley's Gardens, Silverton,
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gardengus On May 15, 2016 Bloomed
MamaFan On July 6, 2021 Miscellaneous Event
Needed Dividing. But queen mother garden spider was living there and I was too afraid, so I'll do it next year.
MamaFan On May 4, 2021 Bloomed
MamaFan On May 8, 2020 Bloomed
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