1973 American Iris Society Medals and Awards Return to Main Awards page. 1973 Medal and Award Winning Iris Gallery The American Iris Society hopes you enjoy scrol...
* 2014 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2014 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
2015 Award Winners Gallery Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2015 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up. The AIS Award of ...
* 2016 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2016 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Awa...
* 2017 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2017 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
* 2018 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that have won 2018 AIS Medals and Awards or were runners up.* The AIS Aw...
* 2019 Award Winners Gallery* * Below you will find a picture gallery with links to iris that won 2019 American Dykes Medal and AIS Medals and runners up.* The A...
Administrative Info and Links Admin for Iris Docents and Admins * Add a New Cultivar * Docent Information * Add a new Docent For each class or group of ...
AIS Webinars See American Iris Society YouTube Channel Note: Judges See Judges Training Webinars list on the AIS website for the correct webinar version for Ju...
AWARDS with history then photo gallery The world's Iris Societies have created many types of awards. Garden Awards are recommendations to the public of the best I...
Awards in 2010 to Beardless Irises and Species * Awards for Species * Awards for Species Crosses * Awards for Pacific Coast Natives * Awards for Louis...
AIS Awards 2022 Printable List Previous Years Awards Image Galleries; 2013; 2014; 2015: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021: THE DYKES MEDAL All iris classes, ori...
Coming Soon! Also 2023 Printable List AIS Awards 2023 Printable List See Also Awards Of Merit, 2023 : Honorable Mentions, 2023 More about awards Previous ...
Iris Encyclopedia Projects Awards The Iris Encyclopedia has been created by the American Iris Society for all irisarians and would be irisarians. Similar to the...
Iris Classes Irises are divided into a number of classes by AIS for garden judging. As such they compete for different medals and are supported by different AIS S...
Cal Sibes Amos Perry and Calsibes Cal Sibes: A group of species hybrids involving a pacific coast native and a Siberian Iris. The first of these crosses was prod...
Series Californicae (Diels) Lawrence related links... Botanical Classification Series Californicae (Diels) Lawrence. A group of plants within the Section Limniri...
Series Longipetalae (Diels) Lawrence Series Longipetalae (Diels) Lawrence A group of plants within the section Limniris from Western North America with persistent...
Cultivation of Iris Each class of iris has different cultural requirements. Recommendations should always be adjusted to local climate conditions. It is recommend...
Daily Iris Puzzle See also: Iris Jigsaw Puzzles Below is the Daily Iris Puzzle which ran during the pandemic from April 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021. It includes ...
Facebook Pages of Iris Societies The American Iris Society and many other groups in AIS maintain Facebook pages in addition, or sometimes instead of, to their web...
Cultural Information: Planting and Growing Iris by Betty Wood Irises are among the easiest of perennials to grow, and they give an abundance of beauty with minim...
Glossary of Iris Terms and Abbreviations (under construction) Note The botanical and horticultural jargon used in Iris is extensive and it takes two forms; 1.Term...
Horticultural Classification There are two classification systems; Botanical Classification and Horticultural Classification. As the world's registrar for Iris Th...
International Iris Societies The Iris Encyclopedia cooperates with Iris societies around the world: Below are Iris Societies that provide information and services...
Iris Calendar Resources The Iris Calendar contains events from a variety of sources. The online ones are listed here so they can be checked periodically. The 2023...
Medal Eligible Irises 2015 Each year the American Iris Society judges irises in the gardens at a variety of levels. You can learn more about these awards and prev...
Sydney B. Mitchell Medal The highest award given by the American Iris Society strictly to Pacific Coast Natives History by Clarence Mahan ...........................
William Mohr Medal The highest award given by the American Iris Society strictly to Arilbred Irises with less than 1/2 Aril content. History from Clarence Mahan:....
Mitchell Medal Eligible Irises 2015 The Sydney B. Mitchell Medal is the highest special medal awarded by the American Iris Society to Pacific Coast Native Irises ...
New Registrations: Registrations by year are available for each class of Irises under Irises BY Year at the start of each web * Arils by Year * Arilbreds b...
New Registrations For 1925 Under Construction _ Arilbreds ■ 'William Mohr' (William Mohr, R. 1925). Intermediate 'Alhena' … ' (George Bunyard Co., R. 1925)...
New Registrations for 2016 Image galleries or: List of all registrations below that(■ designates image present) Image Gallery A; Arilbreds MDBs Image Gallery...
New registrations for 2018 (under construction) registration information will be added after publication of the 2018 R I presently images only. Under Construct...
New registrations for 2021 (under construction) registration information will be added after publication of the 2021 R I presently images only. Under Construct...
New registrations and Yearly image galleries Under Construction Jump to these galleries by clicking on name Bearded Irises * Aril Iris * Arilbred Iris ...
Broken Color Broken color has become such a popular color pattern that perhaps it should not be included as a novelty any more. It should not be confused with iri...
Flounced And Spooned Irises One of the "Space Age" types of Irises that has been included under Novelty Irises is those with flounces or spoons. In this case inst...
Novelty Frilled Flowers These may be the same or similar to Laced Flowers. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between frilled, fringed and lace. The cultive...
Iris With Laced Flowers. Return to Novelty Irises When the protuberances on the edge of flowers were first noticed by hybridizers they were considered deformities...
Number Of Iris Names April 25/2016 How Many Irises Are there? Since there is a page for each Iris name The Table below provides a good estimate of all irises nam...
All Registrations By Year (Image Galleries) New introductions Choose Classification AR AB BB IB JI LA MDB MTB PCN SIB SPEC SPX SPU SDB TB AR Aril Registratio...
News Notes Sample News Notes is the electronic newsletter of the American Iris Society for members. This is a sample issue (from early 2015) with working links ...
AIS Sections and Cooperating Societies Sections and Cooperating Societies are independent Special Iris Groups focusing on specific groups of irises. These may be ...
Seed Exchanges Related links..............................Seed Germination For many years there have been two seed exchamges within the American Iris Society. One...
Seeds Use the following Jump links to go to those topics or scroll down. * Types Of Seeds * Seed Sources * Seed Germination TYPES OF SEED, IDENTIFICATION: Rhizom...
Unregistered Iris It is expected that a new iris will be registered and than introduced. This order does not always happen. Sometimes a cultivar is introduced for...
Web Statistics There are twenty webs that make up the Encyclopedia. Most focus on a particular type of Iris a few others such as the Garden Web or the History Web...
Index to General Iris Information Topics Below is a conventional INDEX. It is a list of links to definitions and topic areas. Click on a word for more information...
This template can only be changed by: * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.WikiAdminGroup (PCN) Variety Name YYYY, HYBRIDIZER(Optional description) There are NOP ima...
State of The Encyclopedia 9 15 2013 Just how many irises are there? Someday we will be able to answer that question with some precision, but presently there are 5...
Virtual International Iris Show, 2014 Note: This show was completed in 2014 so entries are no longer accepted. Floral design section and Horticulture entries no...