Summary

  1. Iris SELF

  2. Iris AMOENA

  3. Iris AMOENA INVERSE

  4. Iris BICOLORE

  5. Iris BITONE

  6. Iris NEGLECTA

  7. Iris BLEND

  8. Iris BROKEN COLOR

1. Iris SELF

An Iris of essentially a single color. If the falls and standards are of the same color the Iris will usually be called a self even if there may be haft marks, shoulders, or beards that vary from the primary color.

Coup de SOLEIL

Name : COUP DE SOLEIL

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : CAYEUX,

Richard

 

Height of stalk : 75 cm

 

Year of introduction : 2007

2. Iris AMOENA

Simply defined an amoena is a flower with white standards and colored falls.

Iris Amoena

Name : CALLING

 

Blooming time : early to mid-season

 

Hybridizer : BLYTH, Barry

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 2003

3. Iris AMOENA INVERSE

These flowers have white falls and colored standards just the reverse of the traditional Amoenas.

Iris AMOENA INVERSE

Name : IN REVERSE

 

Blooming time : early to mid-season

 

Hybridizer : GATTY, Joseph

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1993

4. Iris BICOLORE

A Bicolor is an Iris with standards of one color and falls of another.

Iris BICOLORE

Name : EDITH WOLFORD

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : HAGER, Ben

 

Height of stalk: 102 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1986

5. Iris BITONE

Standards and falls are the same color but with different intensities with the exception of blue, indigo and violet.

Iris BITONE

Name : ROSE PRINCESS

 

Blooming time : early to mid-season

 

Hybridizer : ERNST, Richard

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1989

6. Iris NEGLECTA

Iris BITONE in blue, indigo or purple color.

Iris NEGLECTA

Name : BELLE HORTENSE

 

Blooming time : early to mid-season

 

Hybridizer : CAYEUX, Richard

 

Height of stalk : 80 cm

 

Year of introduction : 2009

7. Iris BLEND

Combination of two or more colors on the flower with yellow as the background color.

Iris BLEND

Name : FIESTA SONG

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : WOOD, Vernon

 

Height of stalk : 94 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1990

8. Iris BROKEN COLOR ou MACULOSA

Also called zebra irises, they have streaks, spots or stripes distributed anarchically on the surface of the flower, each flower can be totally different from its neighbors.

Iris BROKEN COLOR

Name : TOUCAN TANGO

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : KASPEREK, Brad

 

Height of stalk : de 91 à 97 cm

 

Year of introduction : 2000

9. Iris DISTALLATA

White (or very light) standards and falls, falls with a yellow or pale orange colored area in the center which is covered with fine, more or less accentuated dark stripes.

Name : PUCCINI

 

Blooming time : from early to late

 

Hybridizer : GHIO, Joseph

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1999

10 .Iris PLICATA

Falls with a light background dotted with another color and bordered by a border of the same color. The standards are either identical, less spotted, or frankly united.

Iris Plicata

Name : RANCHO ROSE

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : GIBSON, James

 

Height of stalk : 97 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1975

11. Iris AMOENA-PLICATA

Iris mixing the characteristics of the 2 appellations.

Iris Amoena-Plicata

Name : FRENCH BUTTERFLY

 

Blooming time : early to mid-season, remontant

 

Hybridizer : BLYTH, Barry

 

Height of stalk : 89 cm

 

Year of introduction : 2014

12. Iris LUMINATA

Variant of iris plicata characterized by a reduction of colors on the fringes of the standards and falls and by a light spot framing the beard.

Iris Luminata

Name: FANCY DRESS

 

Blooming time : early

 

Hybridizer : KEPPEL, Keith

 

Height of stalk : 86 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1997

13. Iris GLACIATA

Standards and falls are completely devoid of anthocyanins (blue, indigo or purple pigments) and the colors are therefore “cleaner”, more luminous.

Iris Glaciata

Name : DÉSIRIS

 

Blooming time : late mid-season

 

Hybridizer : RANSOM, Lawrence

 

Height of stalk : 75 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1994

14. Iris SPACE-AGER ou ROSTRATA

The beard of the flower ends either in a spur or horn, hairy or not, or in a petaloid appendage in the shape of a spoon, a pompom, etc.

Iris Space ager

Name : MESMERIZER

 

Blooming time : mid, remontant

 

Hybridizer : BYERS, Monty

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1991

15. Iris UMBRATA

Light-colored iris on the standards and the outer edge of the falls with a large dark spot in the center.

Iris Umbrata

Name : COFFEE WHISPERS

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : BLYTH, Barry

 

Height of stalk : 97 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1999

16. Iris VARIEGATA

Iris with yellow or yellow-based standards and dark red-based falls.

Iris Variegata

Name : SMART ALECK

 

Blooming time : late

 

Hybridizer: GATTY, Joseph

 

Height of stalk : 91 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1988

17. Iris VARIEGATA-PLICATA

Iris mixing the characteristics of the 2 appellations.

Iris Variegata-Plicata

Name : WILD JASMINE

 

Blooming time : mid

 

Hybridizer : HAMNER, Bernard

 

Height of stalk : de 81 à 86 cm

 

Year of introduction : 1983

18. Iris "EMMA COOK"

White iris with a blue border on the falls, but not having plicata genes.

Iris Emma-Cook

Name : QUEEN’S CIRCLE

 

Blooming time : from mid-season to late

 

Hybridizer: KERR, Fred

 

Height of stalk : 81 cm

 

Year of introduction :  2000