Details for: PI 487609, Iris ensata Thunb., 'Sky and Mist'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Iris ensata Thunb.
Cultivar:
'Sky and Mist'
Origin:
Donated – District of Columbia, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Apr 1984
PI Assigned:
1984
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Rhizome
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Iris ensata Thunb.
Cultivar:
'Sky and Mist'
Origin:
Donated – District of Columbia, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Apr 1984
PI Assigned:
1984
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Rhizome
Source History
Donated
April 1984.
District of Columbia, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Sky and Mist'
Type: Cultivar name

NA 50251
Type: Donor identifier
Group: NA
Ackerman W. L.

Narrative
Plants 60cm. Each spathe averages 2 branches, 3 blooms. Blooming late. Flowers 12-15cm across, 7 to 9 petals, loose peony form, falls white with violet-blue veins and slight mosaic, petaloids violet edged in white, excellent substance, signals yellow.
Iris ensata Thunb.
Genus:
Iris
Subgenus:
Limniris
Section:
Limniris
Family:
Iridaceae
Subfamily:
Iridoideae
Tribe:
Irideae
Nomen number:

20295
Place of publication:

Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2:328. 1794
Verified:
05/08/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Iris ensata Thunb. var. ensata

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Iris ensata Thunb. var. pabularia Naudin
Iris ensata Thunb. var. spontanea (Makino) Nakai
Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem.
Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem. var. kaempferi
Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem. var. spontanea Makino
Iris pabularia hort. ex Hasselbr.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbeaked iris  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishjade cicada-flower  1Waddick, J. W. & Zhao Yu-tang. 1992. Iris of China
EnglishJapanese iris as Iris kaempferi1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Iris kaempferi
EnglishJapanese water iris  1Mathew, B. F. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Englishsword-leaf iris  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchiris du Japon  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1482.
Germanjapanische Sumpf-Schwertlilie  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1482.
Japanese Rōmajihana-shōbu  2Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Swedishjapansk iris  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chineseyu chan hua  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 08 May 1992, from Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem. to Iris ensata Thunb.
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