Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Currier McEwen
Year Of Registration: 1976
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1977
Seedling Number: 71/33(2)
Classification: Siberian
Registered Height: 27 inches (68 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: White
Yellow
Bloom Color Description: White standards, greenish yellow veins; yellow falls, greenish yellow veins
Style Arm Color: White, yellow midribs
Awards: Honorable Mention: 1978
Morgan-Wood Medal: 1986
Other: Morgan-Wood Award: 1981

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: Floating Island X Dreaming Yellow
Child plants: 61 child plants

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  • Siberian Iris
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Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-06-15
Siberian Iris (Iris 'Butter and Sugar') bloom
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-06-09
Location: Maine

Date: 2015-05-26
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2017-06-04
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-06-15
Border bed, Siberian Iris (Iris 'Butter and Sugar'), front and ce
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2024-05-24
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Location: RHS Harlow Carr gardens, Yorkshire, England UK 
Date: 2018-06-11
Iris 'Butter and Sugar'
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-06-05
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2020-06-20
Siberian Iris Butter and Sugar
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2020-06-22
Siberian Iris Butter and Sugar
Location: Daisydo's garden
Date: 2019-05
Butter and Sugar siberian iris

photo credit: Derek Ramsey
Uploaded by AlanJ
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-06-11
Siberian Iris (Iris 'Butter and Sugar'), buds forming

Date: 2018-05-16
Newly planted

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
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Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
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Date: 2013-06-09
Uploaded by mattsmom
Location: Sussex, UK
Date: mid June 2019

Photo Courtesy of Daylilies by the Pond. Used with Permission.
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Uploaded by Hamwild
Location: Alexander's Farm Market, Whitmore Lake, MI
Date: 2012-06-10
Location: Alexander's Farm Market, Whitmore Lake, MI
Date: 2012-06-10

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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