Dorothea K. Williamson
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What's This?
EB Williamson, 1918
Iris Class:
Louisiana
Age:
1900-1919
Fall Color:
Purple
Standard Color:
Purple
Pattern:
Self
Hybridizer:
Williamson EB
Rarity:
GG eligible - protected
Full Description
LA (Hex) 33″ L
From Walter Marx’s Garden catalog for 1959: “One of the older hybrids from a cross between fulva and foliosa. Small deep velvety purple flowers of wonderful substance on 15-inch procumbent stems. Unexcelled for cutting.”
Velvety blue-purple, yellow line signal. Strong pleasant fragrance.
(fulva X foliosa).
Note: Named in honor of E.B. Williamson’s mother.