Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Ron de la Motte
Year Of Registration: 2003
Seedling Number: 95-54-16
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Mid Late
Late
Rebloom
Bloom Color Description: White standards tinged purple; violet purple falls, 1/8"-1/4" light purple edge
Beard Color: Orange, hairy purple horn, sometimes spoon or flounce
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Spoons
Flounces
Style Arm Color: White tinged purple, light purple vein
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: Howdy Do X Liaison
Child plants: 2 child plants

Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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