2023 Novelty Irises

Novelty Irises are those iris that deviate from the mainstream in form, pattern, or other characteristics. They include broken color, horned/spooned/flounced flowers, flat flowers, and variegated foliage. Below you will find a gallery of those irises registered in 2023 that fall within these novelty categories. They are presented in both novelty category and alphabetical order.

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The American Iris Society hopes you enjoy scrolling through the gallery. To provide you with additional information, each Iris is linked to it's cultivar page in the Encyclopedia, just click on the caption or photo.

Gallery of 2023 Broken Color Irises

‘Always On Slightly Off’
TB
David Toth

‘Aubrianna’
TB
William Tyson

‘Bichette Cherie’
TB
Jean-Pierre Albert

‘Bone Chilling’
TB
David Toth

‘Briar Berries’
IB
David Toth

‘Cities In Dust’
TB
David Toth

‘Clodagh Kelway’
TB
Dave Kelleway

‘Corona Broken’
TB
Klaus Burkhardt

‘Grape Snowcone’
TB
David Toth

‘Hodgepodge’
TB
Paul Black

‘Melloday’
TB
Evelyn Toth

‘Morning Sun Rayz’
TB
David Toth

‘Passing Waves’
TB
David Toth

‘Peach Fusion’
TB
Evelyn Toth

‘Piotrus’
SDB
Katarzyna Zalewska-Taylor

‘Setting The Bar’
IB
David Toth

‘Shrek’
SDB
Lryna Lukava

‘Spilt Milk’
AB (OGB-)
Paul Black

‘Things Get Broken’
TB
David Toth

‘Wondergirl’
TB
Evelyn toth

‘Zi Tui Bai’
JI
Liu Hong

For additional information on the Broken Color pattern in iris click here.

Gallery of 2023 Flat Flowers Irises

No iris with flat flowers were found in the search.

For additional information on the Flat Flowers in iris click here.

Gallery of 2023 Horned/Spooned/Flounced Flowers Irises

The novelty words in quotation marks are from the iris descriptions in the AIS Register.

‘Ahh May Zing’
TB
Tom Burseen
"fat and wide horns"

‘All Broken Up’
TB
David Toth
"short fuzzy horns"

‘All Together Frightening’
TB
David Toth
"short fuzzy horns"

‘Alwaus On Slightly Off’
TB
David Toth
"long smooth horns"

‘Amorous Courtesan’
TB
Rachel Barnes
"horns"

‘April Sugar’
TB
Tom Burseen
"uplifted flounces"

‘Astral Projection’
SDB
Richard Tasco
"flounces"

‘Bad To The Bone’
IB
Hugh Stout
"horns"

‘Bee Outstanding’
TB
Lyn Chappell
"hairy spoons"

‘Breathless Again’
TB
David Toth
"upward curved horns"

‘Call Me Bubba’
TB
Tom Burseen
"horns"

‘Champe’
TB
Dominique Marchal
"horns"

‘Charming Oakie’
TB
Tom Burseen
"hairy horns"

‘Chubby Doings’
TB
Tom Burseen
"feathered horns"

‘Coyoacan’
TB
Loic Tasquier
"small horns"

‘Cranberry Dessert’
IB
Evelyn Toth
"horns covered in hairs"

‘Daddy Knows’
TB
Tom Burseen
"long filamentous feathered horns"

‘Darkening Of The Night’
TB
David Toth
"fuzzy horns"

‘David Borg Teacher’
TB
Davide Dalla Libera
"horns"

‘Etienne Burger’
TB
Nathalie Kacza
"hairy horns"

‘Factor In Gold’
TB
Patricia Pratt
"horns"

‘Fade Into You’
TB
David Toth
"moderate sized spoons"

‘Finger Lickin' Good’
IB
Hugh Stout
"fat horns"

‘Flirty Bee’
IB
David Toth
"fuzzy horns"

‘Girls Got Flair’
TB
Melissa Schiller
"horns"

‘Goodness Sake’
TB
Tom Burseen
"narrow horns"

‘Heavenly Unicorn’
TB
David Spence
"haired, upturned horns"

‘Imperial Commando’
TB
Howard Dash
"flounces"

‘Iy Tebya Pridumal’
TB
Olga Riabykh
"horns"

‘Magic Grits’
TB
Tom Burseen
"fat, wide, bushy, fuzzy hairy short horns"

‘Meaningful Way’
TB
Tom Burseen
"feathered horns"

‘Midnight Voyage’
TB
Michael Sutton
"fuzzy horns"

‘Mind Altering’
TB
David Toth
"fuzzy horns

‘Misunderstood’
TB
David Toth
"horns"

‘Moon Dream’
TB
David Toth
"horns"

‘No Risk No Return’
TB
Melissa Schiller
"horns, occasional flounce

‘Oh No You Don't’
TB
David Toth
"large spoons"

‘Out Of My Mind’
TB
David Toth
"horns"

‘Passing Waves’
TB
David Toth
"extremely large rounded spoons"

‘Pisilamova’
TB
Alla Chernoguz
"feather spoons"

‘Pinch Me Pink’
TB
Richard Tasco
"small horns"

‘Pitch A Fit’
TB
Perry Dyer
"feathered horns, sometimes flounces"

‘Pittura Fresca’
TB
Augusto Bianco
"horns"

‘Pooh's Honey Pot’
IB
David Toth
"smooth horns"

‘Power Ranger’
IB
Hugh Stout
"long, fat, bushy horns"

‘Red Sky At Night’
IB
David Toth
"fuzzy horns"

‘Ring My Bell’
TB
Hugh Stout
"horns to flounces"

‘River Dreaming’
TB
Lyn Chappell
"tiny horns"

‘Sails At Sunset’
TB
James Cummins
"flounces"

‘Seaside Daze’
TB
David Toth
"large spoons"

‘Shrimp Jump’
TB
Davide Dalla Libera
"fuzzy horns"

‘Shwing’
BB
Hugh Stout
"elongated flounces or erect horns"

‘Sip It Slow’
TB
Tom Burseen
"flounces"

‘Singing Again’
TB
Robert Van Liere
"horns"

‘Solomiia Krusheinytska’
TB
Alla Chernoguz
"horns"

‘Souls On Fire’
IB
David Toth
"may have very short horns"

‘Space Hunter’
TB
David Spence
"upturned haired horns"

‘Spirit Of Adventure’
TB
James Cummins
"spoons"

‘Spy On Me’
TB
David Toth
"large stout upward horns"

‘Still Falling’
TB
David Toth
"fuzzy horns"

‘Straight Outta Nebraska’
TB
David Toth
"flounces or spoons"

‘Surrender All Control’
TB
David Toth
"large spoons"

‘Sweet Carmen’
TB
Richard Mathy
"horns"

‘Tahiti Gold’
IB
David Toth
"upward horns covered in hairs"

‘Ten Four’
TB
Tom Burseen
"fuzzy short horns"

‘Texas Royalty’
TB
Stephanie Myers
"slight horns"

‘To The Extreme’
TB
Tom Burseen
"tattered and fuzzy horns"

‘Tsarevna Budur’
TB
Olga Riabykh
"horns"

‘Under The Moon’
TB
David Toth
"horns covered in hairs"

‘Vanille Au Citron’
TB
Loic Tasquier
"hairy horns"

‘Very Scary’
TB
Tom Burseen
"feathered horns"

‘Wild Thoughts’
TB
Tom Burseen
"double flounces"

‘Yaroslav’
TB
Iryna Lukava
"horns with big flounces"

‘Yes To My Dress’
TB
Tom Burseen
"narrow spoons"

‘Yippee Ki Yea’
TB
Tom Burseen
"horns"

‘Zamagurie’
TB
Anton Mego
"large flounces"

For additional information on the horned flowers in iris click here and click here for Flounced and Spooned flowered iris.

Gallery of 2023 Variegated Foliage Irises

‘Enemy Attack’
TB
Sandy Ives

‘Futuristic’
SDB
Paul Black

‘Indecisive’
TB
Paul Black

For additional information on the iris with Variegated Foliage click here.

References:

This gallery of American Iris Society registered irises that are considered novelties was gathered from the AIS Iris Register with an Advanced Search for irises with "novelty words" in their Description and a Year Registered year of "2023". The AIS Register is available to AIS members with e-membership access.
A list of Registered 2023 Novelty Iris with links to each iris cultivar page in the AIS Encycloedia.
There are other characteristics which are not as prominent as those captured above but can be found on the Novelty Irises page.
The Historic Iris Preservation Society provides information on purple coloration in iris plants with their Purple Coloration Types (PCT) Project.

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-- DougChyz - 20 Jan 2026