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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Name : QUEEN’S CIRCLE
Blooming time : from mid-season to late
Hybridizer: KERR, Fred
Height of stalk : 81 cm
Year of introduction : 2000