Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Jack Worel
Year Of Registration: 2003
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): unknown, in distribution ca. 1970
Classification: Border Bearded (BB)
Registered Height: 25 inches (64 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Flower Form: Tailored
Bloom Color Classification: Cream
Purple
Yellow
Flower Patterns: Broken
Bloom Color Description: Light cream with irregular purple blotches and specks, yellow at base of standards extending on margin 1/3 distance upward, continuing as yellow marginal tinge, yellow slightly more pronounced on falls and extending halfway, continuing as yellow tinge
Beard Color: Yellow, slightly darker in throat
Style Arm Color: Light cream with irregular purple blotches and specks,
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet

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 8b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Parentage: Parentage unknown

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Common names
  • Border Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2017-04-18
Location: My Garden in Janesville, WI
Date: 2020-05-27
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2016-04-30
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-05-23
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2018-04-20
BB Iris Minnesota Mixed-Up Kid
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-28
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-09
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL

Date: 2023-05-26
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2022-05-30

Date: 2021-05-22
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: May 31, 2022
Location: Superstition Gardens - Cathey's Valley CA
Date: 2017-05-07
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-09
Location: Two Litle Acres Concord Mi
Date: May 28 2017
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: 2023-05-28
Location: Catheys Valley CA
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi
Location: Lancaster, CA
Date: Spring 2017

Image courtesy of Iris City Gardens

Date: 2018-05-08

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris. Used with permission.
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2018-05-08

Photo courtesy of Rainbow Iris Farm
Location: Whitesboro, TX
Date: 2017-05-24
Image courtesy of The Shady Spot Iris. All rights reserved.

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris. Used with permission.

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