Popularity Polls

New 2025 Popularity Poll

• New in 2025, the 2025 AIS Iris Popularity Poll opened for voting on November 1 and will close on January 31, 2026. The poll is open to all classes of irises, both bearded and beardless. You will be able to type in the names of your favorite irises in an online form and submit it electronically. You will be asked to give the state where you garden, the name of the iris (up to 25 different cultivars) and the class of each iris you named. You will also be asked for the voters’ names just in case several people use the same email address in order for those to be counted as separate voters. We hope you will restrict your votes to irises you have seen growing well in your region or home garden.

• This poll is open to anyone, you do not have to be an American Iris Society (AIS) member to vote. Because the poll includes all classes of irises, AIS can determine what irises people are enjoying all over North America.

• AIS is hoping that analysis of the data (especially useful if enough people vote) will show favorite irises by region and state. AIS also hopes to use the data to see what irises do well in the frozen north, the humid southeast, the hot desert, and under other growing conditions. Maybe you will find that there is a class of irises you didn’t know does well in similar growing conditions to yours. Results could let you know the names of different types of irises you might want to try.

• To participate in the 2025 Iris Popularity Poll, choose up to 25 favorite irises that you have seen growing well in your area. If you are unsure how to spell an iris name, please check the Iris Encyclopedia. You can access the online popularity poll between November 1, 2025, and January 31, 2026.

• The results are in! Further analysis will come later but here is the data at

• 2025 PopularityPollResults

Recent History of Popularity Polls

Tall Bearded Symposium

Most years the sections and cooperating societies focused on a special type of Iris conduct popularity polls among their membership. The AIS conducts a Tall Bearded Symposium among its membership. Lists of the results for each year from 2007 to 2022 are available as PDFs on the AIS page. We have consolodated photo galleries of the 100 favorite irises from AIS Tall Bearded Symposium for 2010, 2011 and 2022

Additional Links may be provided for these symposia in the future.

You can vote for your favorite Tall-bearded by becoming a member of the American Iris Society;

Other Popularity Polls

Many of the sections conduct their own popularity polls; See

Spuria Popularity Polls for 2012, 2013, and 2014

Japanese Iris Popularity Poll for 2013.

Favorite Intermediate Irises for 2010

Favorite Miniature Tall Bearded Irises go to MTBs under construction

Favorite Standard Dwarf Bearded Irises go to SDBs for 2010.

50 Favorite Minature Dwarf Irises for MDBs for 2010,

You can vote in the Dwarf Iris Symposium if you become a member of the Dwarf Iris Society Section of the American Iris Society; You can vote in the Median Symposium if you are a member of the Median Iris Society section of the American Iris Society;

Regions also conduct various popularity polls. As an example, see the Region 1 "no-holds-barred-no-class-excluded" poll from 1998.

Historic Popularity Polls

The first popularity poll for tall bearded Irises that we know was done before the existence of the American iris Society in 1917. For historic polls see articles in the Historic Iris web.

-- BobPries - 2010-09-14