Re: Iris confusa or wattii?

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Here is a photo I posted to BeadlessIrisPhotos a few weeks ago. The plant on the right is the Johnson Clone. The plant on the left was sold as an I. wattii, but looks to me like a pale lavender Iris confusa. Despite is small size compared to the Johnson Clone, it is a large I. confusa. It's at least as large as the white clone that has been widely distributed through our Iris club and it's much larger the Chengdu.

Ken Walker
Concord, CA USA
zone 9

Diane Whitehead wrote:

I have a lost-label plant in a pot that might be I. wattii. It has
not flowered yet and does not have a flower spike visible for this
year. The BIS key to Evansias depends upon measurements, but a plant
in a one gallon pot is not going to be showing its eventual size.

There is one noticeable difference between it and the confusa that is
flowering in the garden - the confusa has bare canes, but the mystery
plant has large bracts all along the canes. I haven't noticed this
mentioned anywhere, but I hope it may be diagnostic.

Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate
mild rainy winters, mild dry summers