Hi!! This is still an Iris douglasiana..but occasionally they'll have four petals...I'm just repeating everyone else...Love our pacific Coast Iris...Here in Oregon we also have Iris chrysophila, Iris tenax, Iris innominata, and hybrids in between..as well as iris douglasiana.. Happy spring!! Leigh in Trail, Oregon On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:24 PM Dennis Kramb via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Yeah I see this almost every year in my garden. It happens to any type of > iris. It seems to be triggered by extreme temperature changes during bud > formation. I've seen it on bearded, beardless, and crested. I probably > see it most often on bearded, because they make up the bigger chunk of my > collection. > > And when I say "it" -- I mean irises with "other-than-the-normal-3-parts. > Sometimes it's 4-parts. Sometimes it's 5-parts. Sometimes it's 2-parts. > Once I even had it with 1-part. > > Dennis in Cincinnati > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: iris agness 2021.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 5808523 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>