Photo Courtesy of Brighton Park Iris

ORIGINATOR: Mary Williamson INTRODUCED: 1936 CLASS: Tall Bearded HEIGHT: 40" BLOOM SEASON: Mid DESCRIPTION: S. snowy white; F hyacinth violet edged white; beards yellow. PARENTAGE: Dorothy Dietz X Cantabile AWARDS: HM 1937, AM 1938, Dykes Medal 1940 INTERESTING INFO: From the 1938 Cooley's Gardens Catalog: A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race. With clean white standards and bright purple falls, it might have been called 'Elk's Temple,' so well does it call to mind the colors of that well-known fraternal organization. The flowers are large and are borne on well branched stalks reaching almost forty inches in height. Most like named after the Wabash River, near the location where the hybridizer lived. The variety Bright Hour is often passed around as Wabash. The true Wabash has purple-based foliage (PBF), Bright Hour does not.