Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Tom Burseen
Year Of Registration: 2012
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2013
Seedling Number: 09-454A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 35 inches (89 cm)
Bloom Season: Late
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Description: Honeysuckle standards, darker at base; violet purple falls, honeysuckle wash around beards, violet blue drip line below beards, white edges
Beard Color: Based grenadine red orange, tips gold, violet blue horns
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Style Arm Color: Honeysuckle washed yellow
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 9b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Exotic Notions X 07-317: (04-440: (02-224: (Braggin Rights x A-481: (Unfinished Business x 97-313: (95-287: (Letmentertainu x Stars and Stripes) x 95-164, see Braggin Rights))) x 02-448: (A-408: (97-544, see Texas Tradition, x 98-398, see Texas Tradition) x 99-373, Banker Dave pod parent)) x 05-126, see Furgitten Time)
Child plants: 5 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

Photo Gallery
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2019-04-27
Dappled shade.  The beard is enormous.
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2019-04-28
Newly opened, in side view, morning sun.

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