Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Classification: Dutch, Spanish and English
Bloom Color Classification: Yellow

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Plant Height: 28 inches
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Bulb

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Common names
  • Dutch Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-14

Date: c. 1937
photo from the 1937 catalog, Milliken Iris Gardens, Pasadena, Cal
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-12

Date: c. 1933
illustration from the 1933 catalog, Wayside Gardens, Mentor, Ohio

Date: c. 1937
photo by Lilian A. Guernsey from the Bulletin of the American Iri
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Comments:
  • Posted by scvirginia on Jun 15, 2020 9:48 AM concerning plant:
    Description from the May 1937 Bulletin of the American Iris Society, p.25:
    Yellow Queen—S[tandards] Picrie Yellow. F[alls] Empire Yellow, blotch barely distinguishable but Lemon Chrome. Rather unequal in flowering.

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