Details for: PI 487618, Iris ensata Thunb., 'Capitol Dandy'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Iris ensata Thunb.

Cultivar:

'Capitol Dandy'

Origin:

Donated – District of Columbia, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

Apr 1984

PI Assigned:

1984

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Rhizome

Inventory Volume:

192
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Iris ensata Thunb.

Cultivar:

'Capitol Dandy'

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):

Ackerman, William L., USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Capitol Dandy'

Type: Cultivar name

NA 50260

Type: Donor identifier

Group: NA

Ackerman W. L.

Narrative

Plants 84cm tall. Each spathe averages 2 branches, 4 blooms. Blooming early. Flowers 15 to 18cm across, 3 broad petals, falls violet with bright violet veins and mosaic around signal, ruffled margins, standards violet, style arms arched violet, 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

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	beaked iris		1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English	jade cicada-flower		1	Waddick, J. W. & Zhao Yu-tang. 1992. Iris of China
English	Japanese iris	as Iris kaempferi	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Iris kaempferi
English	Japanese water iris		1	Mathew, B. F. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
English	sword-leaf iris		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	iris du Japon		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1482.
German	japanische Sumpf-Schwertlilie		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1482.
Japanese Rōmaji	hana-shōbu		2	Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Swedish	japansk iris		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	yu chan hua		2	Wu 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.