SPECIES IRIS

Iris leavigata

Bog Plants, Species Iris and Species Crosses

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Iris pseudacorus The water loving 'yellow flag' from Europe. 3 to 6'. Also does well in ordinary garden soil.

Donau	'ecru'	Foxcroft Full Moon	Gubijin	Jin Yu
King Clovis	Krill	SeaKrill	'primrose'	Sun Cascade
'variegatus'

	Donau	10.00	(NR) tetraploid. Large yellow (4") pseudacorus; bigplants
	'ecru'	6.00	Pale yellow form; dark signal
	Foxcroft Full Moon	6.00	Creamy white with maroon stitched eye
	Gubijin	10.00	(Shimizu) A special yellow I. pseudacorus: the mother of those wonderful pseudatas from Japan
	Jin Yu	10.00	(Jill Copeland 06) I. maackii. Light yellow self.
	King Clovis	8.00	(Tanksley-Clark 94) Nice bright yellow larger form of pseudacorus
	Krill	6.00	(Jill Copeland 03) Deep yellow with red signal stitches
	SeaKrill	6.00	(Jill Copeland 04) Light yellow with a red maroon signal; purple stem bases and leaf nodes
	'primrose'	6.00	Bright lemon yellow form
	Sun Cascade	6.00	Yellow multipetal. 6-9 falls plus petaloids
	'variegatus'	6.00	(Huber 93) Beautiful yellow and dark green variegated spring foliage which turns all green as the plants mature in late summer.

Phil Edinger	Roy Davidson

Inter species crosses with I. pseudacorus  Grandchildren of the yellow flag, the ancestry is still mysterious. All are interesting yellow flowers with fascinating brown line patterns in the petals.

	Phil Edinger	6.00	(Hager 91) Similar to Roy Davidson in color and pattern,slightly more brown veining.
	Roy Davidson	6.00	(Hager 87) Large yellow blooms (3-4") last 2-3 days; a fewbrown veins from the red-brown crescent signals. 3' high, taller in wet soil

Pseudatas: I. pseudacorus crossed with Japanese Iris (I. ensata)  These interesting flowers now have their own page. To view the page of Pseudatas, click on the title word of this paragraph.

Kinshiko, a pseudata

Iris versicolor / virginica. The native northern and southern 'blue flags' that grow in shallow water and along the edge of streams. Branched stems bloom at about 20-30" if grown well in moist, organic rich soil. Hybrids of the two are called robusta.

Cast Ashore	Dark Aura	Do The Math	Enfant Prodige	For Jay
Gerald Darby	John Wood	Late Call	Mountain Brook	Mysterious Monique
Wooly Bully

	Cast Ashore	15.00	(Chapman 98) Robusta. 30" White, heavily veined rosy lavender
	Dark Aura	6.00	(Hewitt 96) Robusta. 36". Large, dark red-violet blooms on black-purple stems! Purple foliage in spring!
	Do The Math	12.00	(Jill Copeland 08) Complex mix of I. versicolor and I. virginca. Vigorous clump of purple flowers
	Enfant Prodige	6.00	(Huber 97) A complicated cross of versicolor with Japanese irises, it is very vigorous and blooms for a long time. A very choice plant.
	For Jay	6.00	(Copeland 03) a robusta. 3" flowers on 36" stalks with 6-8 buds. Violet standards. Dark violet falls with dark violet veins running through the yellow signal and white halo.
	Gerald Darby	6.00	(Darby 68) a robusta. Blue-violet blooms much like Mountain Brookbelow. Purple leaf bases
	John Wood	6.00	(Wood 98) versicolor. Deep red-violet, gold and white signal; stems shaded purple
	Late Call	10.00	(Huber 02) Versata: mix of I. versicolor and JI. Striking violet flowers with light styles
	Mountain Brook	6.00	(Kennedy 85) Robusta. 30"+. Large blue-violet versicolor type blooms. Foliage is a little purple in early spring
	Mysterious Monique	8.00	(Knoepnadel 92) Versicolor. Falls are velvety dark red-wine; near black; white signal. Stds red violet. Styles white w/ wine wings
	Wooly Bully	6.00	(Jill Copeland 06) Robusta. Vigorous blue purple self, lighter standards, gold signal

I. laevigata, a specie native to Japan that grows in or at the edge of shallow water. They have narrow or spear shaped signals and wider foliage that is more arching than the Japanese iris. The blooms are more pendant and open in form than the Japanese and the plants grow about 20" in the garden and about 30+" in water. Prefer full sun. Bloom about two weeks before Japanese iris.

'Semper- florens'	Asian Alliance	Aquatic Alliance

	'Semperflorens'	Sold Out	3 Falls. Medium blue
	Interesting interspecies Cross:
	Asian Alliance	6.00	(Horinaka/Witt 88) Medium red violet with lighter tall standards; versicolor crossed with laevigata.
	Aquatic Alliance	14.00	(Reid 94) versicolor x laevigata. Violet self ; gold signal veined purple edged white

Louisiana Iris:
	Michigan Belle

Michigan Belle

12.00

Jill Copeland 07) Nice violet I. louisiana that does well in our zone 5 climate