Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City, USA

Common name: Tall Bearded Iris

Family: Iridaceae (Iris family)

Distribution: Garden Hybrid

Hardiness: 4a

Life form: Geophyte (bulb, corm or tuber)

Comments: This cultivar of Tall Bearded Iris comes in striking colors of lavender, white, yellow, and orange. Growing up to 38" in height, this iris is an "early" bloomer, with blooms appearing in April and May. Tall bearded iris are rhizomatous geophytes, that is to say the growth structure and storage organs needed to survive grows from rhizomes underground. Tall bearded iris are drought tolerant once established.