Ghio, 1997
Height 32" - Mid season - Standards pink, rosy violet midrib brushing - Style arms pink - Falls plush maroon, red purple edge, white area around beard - Beards tangerine, white at end
THIS IRIS PRODUCES SMALL RHIZOMES!

Keppel, 1996 - Height 42" - Mid to late season - Standards eggplant to fluorite violet - Style arms mellow glow, hortensia rib - Falls velvety blackish purple, narrow prune purple edge - Beards brick orange, violet base - Slight sweet fragrance
Honorable Mention, 1998 - Award of Merit, 2000

Sutton, 2014
Height 34" Mid - late season
Standards butter yellow, white veining - Style arms yellow - Falls red-violet, 1/2" ruby red band, golden brown edges - Beards yellow, red-violet and golden brown feathery flounces or fuzzy horns - Slight spicy fragrance - Ruffled and serrated

Schreiner, 1996 - Height 36" - Early to mid season - Dark coal black self with yellow beards - Pleasant scent of sweet raisins - 8 to 12 buds per stem
Honorable Mention, 1998 - Award of Merit, 2000

Little S, 2022
Height 34" - Early
Standards white, purple mid veins - Style arms light purple - Falls deep purple, light purple rim - Beards cadmium orange - Slight sweet fragrance

Burseen, 2001 - Height 36" - Mid season - Space-Ager - Standards pure white - Falls white, with purple lines darkest at beard and lighter at edge - Beards carrot red, fuzzy white horn with tan hairs at tip

Schreiner, 2003 - Height 36" - Early to mid season - White standards are infused with a light blue at their base - Style arms blue white - Deep marine blue falls - Beards blue, gold based - Heavy substance - 3 branches with 7 to 8 buds each
Honorable Mention, 2005

Nicodemus, 2003 - Height 34" - Mid season & rebloom - Standards and style arms are deep black purple - Falls are deeper velvety black purple, slight lighter area with deep purple striations around beards - Beards purple, hairs slight bronze cast at end

Meek, 1979

Height 36' Mid to late season

Standards are back-skin tan - Falls are deep wine red - Beards are golden bronze

Gatty, 1980 - Height 33" - Mid to late season - Standards peach-pink - Falls slightly creamier peach-pink - Chinese orange beard tipped paler

Sutton, 2019
Height 37" mid to late season
Standards orient pink, red-purple flush up midrib - Style arms orient pink - Falls pale violet, 1" darker violet rim - Beards yellow-orange - Ruffled - Serrated - Sweet fragrance

Maryott, 1992 - Height 38" - Mid season - Standards poupon yellow - Falls burnt orange rimmed yellow - Beard yellow

Little S, 2020
Height 30" - Early season - Slight musky fragrance
Standards maize yellow, light purple at midribs - Style arms yellow - Falls light pastel purple, yellow hafts fading to almond at edge - Beards orange in throat, light orange in middle, ends white

Johnson, 2003
Height 42" - Mid to late season - Medium dark purple blue with dark orange beards - Spicy fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2005 - Award of Merit, 2007 - Wister Medal, 2009 - American Dykes Medal, 2010 - Franklin Cook Cup, 2004

Ensminger, 1989 - Height 34" - Early to mid season & rebloom - Standards pink, streaked purple and mauve - Falls pink, streaked and splashed purple and mauve - Beards orange red - Pronounced sweet fragrance

Little Sandra, 2024
Height 35" Early to mid season
Standards amber - Style arms light amber - Falls pastel orange with light amber area below beards - Beards safety orange

Lauer, 2006 - Height 34" - Early to mid to late season & rebloom - Standards dawn pink - Style arms venetian pink - Falls orient pink - Beards mandarin red - Lightly ruffled - Pronounced sweet fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2008 - Award of Merit, 2010

Lauer, 1999 - Height 35" - Mid season - Standards bronze yellow, shaded oxblood red - Falls oxblood red - Beards mustard yellow with a darker tip - Fragrant
Honorable Mention, 2001

Lauer, 2001 - Height 31" - Early season - Ruffled azalea pink self - Mandarin red beards - Pronounced sweet fragrance

Blyth, 2005
Height 36" early to mid season
Standards bright lemon yellow; falls red burgundy to ruby, bright yellow even starburst pattern extending half way down; beards bright gold

Worel, 2008 - Height 37" - Mid season - Space-Age - Standards, style arms, and falls are soft yellow - Beards orange, yellow at end, purple horns usually ending in small feathered yellow spoons - Slight sweet fragrance

Cadd, 2000 - Height 38" - Early to mid season & rebloom - Standards soft yellow, pale lavender center flush and midrib - Style arms soft yellow - falls soft yellow, lavender and peach blend, darker lavender center wash, light brown shoulders marked white - Beard yellow - Slight sweet fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2002 - Award of Merit, 2005

Johnson, 2005 - Height 36" - Mid season - Standards medium peach, midrib infused red plum - Style arms medium apricot - Falls velvety, dark burgundy paling slightly toward edge, narrow rosy-mauve rim - Beards dark purple tipped dark henna-brown - Ruffled, lightly laced - Slight spicy fragrance
John C Wister Medal Runnerup, 2013

Sutton, 2006 - Height 34" - Mid to late season & rebloom - Space-Age - White self with palest lavender at base - White beards tipped yellow - White flounces - Slight fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2010

Johnson, 2015
Height 37" - Mid to late season - Standards and style arms peach-orange - Falls Lavender-maroon, deep maroon wash - Beards orange
Honorable Mention, 2017

Jedlicka, 2008 - Height 40" - Mid season - Standards bright yellow - Style arms yellow - Falls red ground, yellow stripes hafts, large yellow area below beards with rays extending deep into red edgea - Beards bright orange

Schreiner, 2008 - Height 34" - Early to mid season - Standards red - Falls wine red - Beards red tipped mustard yellow

Sutton, 2001
Height 36" Early to late season & rebloom
Standards white ground, veined and dottedraspberry - Style arms raspberry - Falls white, veined, with some dotting, and edged dark raspberry - Beards antique gold, hairs tipped raspberry

K Keppel, 1989
Height 36" Early -mid season
Mauve standards; yellow falls with white area near beards and purple margin and hafts; beards are white-purple-orange tipped
Honorable Mention,1991--Award of Merit,1993

Johnson Thomas, 2011
Height 34" Mid season
Standards apricot, rosy blush up midrib - Style arms light apricot - Falls rich wine-claret banded medium rose-mauve - Beards bright tangerine - Ruffled - Slight fragrance

Johnson, 2016
Height 36" - Early season - Standards magenta blending to darker rose - Style arms magenta - Falls light rose-maroon with blue cast, hafts and band at edge in standard color - Beards dark mustard, tips brown - Sweet fragrance

Honorable Mention, 2018

Johnson, 2016

Height 36" Late season

Standards flesh pink center, wide peach band - Style arms peach - Falls peach overlaid with plum lines 2/3 way down petal then mottled and dotted plum to peach band - Beards orange - Ruffled - Musky fragrance

Honorable Mention, 2019

Keppel, 2010
Standards center sulphur to citron yellow changing to warm white texture, veined yellow toward outer portion, narrow 1/8" dandelion edge - Crests dandelion - Falls burgundy black, large central area white to cream strongly veined burgundy black - Beards solid deep chrome to cadmium yellow

Jedlicka, 2010 - Height 38" - Early to mid season - Standards and falls black buds opening wine red becoming brown red - Style arms gold, red purple stripes - Beards lavender base, hairs tipped gold - Lightly ruffled - Slight spicy fragrance

Byers, 1989 - Height 37" - Mid season & rebloom - Space-Age - Ruffled medium mulberry blend with pink at the hafts and fuzzy mulberry horns - Orange red beards - Sweet fragrance

Shoop, 1979 - Height 36" - Mid season - Lightly ruffled amoena with white standards - Grape-violet falls circled by an eye-catching 1/4" wide rim - Tangerine beards - 6 to 7 buds per stem
Honorable Mention, 1981 - Award of Merit, 1983

Black, 2017

Height 46" Mid to late season

Standards bright mid gold, mid auburn veining and wash over base, lighter and narrowing in mid 1/3 of petal darkening to upper 1/3 - Style arms mid apricot gold - Falls dark velvety red black, cream haft and center just below beard, veined dark red-black - Beards dark marigold - Sweet fragrance

Walther Cup Runner-Up, 2019 - Honorable Mention, 2019 - Award of Merit, 2021

Hagar, 2004 - Height 37" - Mid season - Brilliant yellow standards and style arms - Brilliant yellow falls, blended lighter around gold beards - Laced
Honorable Mention, 2006

Schreiner, 2005
Height 40" - Mid season - Standards red - Falls bright yellow, red plicata edges - Beards gold

Denney/McWhirter, 1988 - Height 36" - Mid season - Plicata bitone with rosy-melon standards - Falls are a darker shade of the same color with a light area below bright tangerine beards - Slight fragrance
Honorable Mention, 1990 - Award of Merit, 1994

Keppel, 2007
Height 45" - Mid to late season - Standards huckleberry under-toned imperial purple toward center - Style arms imperial purple - Falls dark prune to fluorite violet, shoulders with blackish sheen - Beards white, tipped bronze brown, Vatican purple at end

Schreiner, 1971 - Height 36" - Mid season - Pure medium blue self with a blue beard - Stems have 3 to 4 branches with 3 to 4 blooms open at the same time
Honorable Mention, 1972 - Award of Merit, 1974

Little Sandra, 2024
Height 36" Mid season
Standards lavender blush - Style arms lavender blush - Falls dark red violet, white veining on hafts and signal patch, thin white rim on edges - Beards orange throat, orange middle, white end - Slight sweet fragrance

Keppel, 1999
Height 38" - mid season
cornflower blue self with heavy ruffling; sweet fragrance; self beard
Honorable Mention, 2001 - Award of Merit, 2003 - Wister Medal, 2005 - Dykes Medal, 2006

Kerr, 2002
Height 36" - mid season
Straw yellow standards with diffused blue-violet centers; fall centers are blue-violet shading to straw yellow edges; brown beards ending in blue

Black, 2005
Height 42" - late season
Space Age - Icy white self; beards white tipped light yellow-gold, short light lavender horns
Honorable Mention, 2007 - Award of Merit, 2010

Keppel, 2000
Height 37" - mid season
Ruffled standards are lavender-white infused with amber at the bases; broad ruffled falls are deep Vatican purple with a narrow violet edge; prominent red beards
Honorable Mention, 2002--Award of Merit, 2004

Schreiner, 1992
Height 38" - mid season
Blue amoena; standards are snowy white; falls are medium blue and pale at the edges; large flowers with copious ruffling; triple branched stems with 8-10 buds
Honorable Mention,1994--Award of Merit,1996