SIGNA: Species Iris Group of North America 2000 34th Species Seed Exchange Greetings: Orders will be filled in the order received. Return immediately for the best selection. Our first shipment of seeds will begin January 15. Orders received after that date will be filled as time permits. No orders will be filled if received after March 1, 2001. If you wish to share your SIGNA list with friends who are non-members, they may copy the order blank and send in their own order as long as they include the $5.00 for one year's membership along with their seed order. We have included a place at the bottom of the order blank for anyone joining and ordering at the same time. After each item in the seedlist you will find a number estimating the total number of seeds available. Donations with fewer than 100 seeds will most likely be sold out early. Be sure to check substitutes when ordering any of these seeds. They will not be used as substitutes. Seeds in short supply may be packed with as few as 4 seeds. If you want items with more seeds per packet, order items in greater supply. Please note the following abreviations used in the seedlist: H P means Hand Pollinated, coli. means Wild Collected, and ex. indicates that the plants that seeds were collected from were originally from another source (which may be a person, a seed exchange, or a wild location) which immediately follows the abbreviation. The alphabetical groups (A, B, C, etc.) used in the seed list follow the outline provided in the SIGNA Species Iris Study Manual published in 1972, e.g. sub-section Pogoniris, series Pumilae is under A, sub-section Poqoniris, series Intermedeae in under B and so on. The Study Manual , The Iris by Brian Mathew, Iris of China by James Waddick and Zhao Yu-tang, The World of Iridaceae by Clive Innes, and the two SIGNA Checklists (1999, compiled by Jean Witt and Bob Pries) are used as references when verifying names. In a few instances, we included names which we were unable to verify. r I. Our grateful thanks to the following donors: AHB Tony Huber, Laval, Quebec, CANADA JWA Jeffrey Walters, Hyrum, UT AJC Ann Jackson, Balwyn, AUSTRALIA JWG John Wight, West Covina, CA BBN Betty Bunting, Accomac, VA JWL John Weiler, Fresno, CA BDS Barbara & David Schmieder, Concord, MA JWT Jean G. Witt, Seattle, WA BWN Brian Wendel, Ossian, IN JWW Jim Waddick, Kansas City, MO Q-lN Christy Hensler, Newport, WA KDM Kathy Marble, Harvard, MA CKN Connie Kindahl, Pelham, MA KWK Kenneth Walker, Concord, CA CLN Carla Lankow, Renton, WA KWL Ken Walkup, Ithaca, NY DGS Don & Ginny Spoon, Cross Junction, VA LDF L. J. Duffy, Fairbanks, AK CRG Colin Rigby, Rochester, WA LHP Lars Hopfner, Svogerslev, Roskilde, DENMARK DHP Donald Humphrey, Falls Church, VA LHR Liselotte Hirsbrunner, Chesieres, SWITZERLAND DKR Dennis Kramb, Liberty Township, OH LMM Lou Emmons, Richmond, IL ORB David Ruble, New Virginia, IA MBT Mary S. Betts, Cambridge, ME DVL Dennis VanLanduyt, Versailles, MO MDV Mary Duval, Brook Park, MN EHB Emma Hobbs, Noblesville, IN NZI New Zealand Iris Society, NEW ZEALAND EHL Elaine P. Hulbert, Floyd, VA MTL Michael Tallman, Santa Rosa, CA EKN Edmundas Kondratas, Kaunas, LITHUANIA PMR Paul R. Martin, Golden, CO FHL Frederick Held, Scio, OR PPR Pat Parkes, Salt Spring Is. British Col., CANADA FTL Francois Tillequin, Paris, FRANCE RBR Rodney A. Barton, Hickory Creek, TX GBT Gerald Batts, Wilson, NC RKN Robert Kontak, Camillus, NY GPR Ginny Prins, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA RST Robert Strohman, Louisville, KY GWR Graham Ware, Armstrong, B.C., CANADA SNR Sam Norris, Owensboro, KY HKT Helmut von Kotzebue, Hollen, GERMANY SPL Steve Ploegstra, Lake Stevens, WA HMT Harald Mathes, Gladbeck, GERMANY TOG Tony Dickerson, Worcester, ENGLAND IPG Ira Pegues, Marietta, GA TDL Tom Dillard, Little Rock, AR JCO Jill Copeland, Lawton, MI TLO Tim Loe, Launceston, Cornwall, ENGLAND JOB John & Deborah Bruce, Middletown, OH TVR Terry Varner, Marietta, OH JFL Joy Flint, Victoria, B.C., CANADA USR Ursula Syre-Herz, SC JHW Jennifer Hewitt, Cleeton St. Mary, ENGLAND WGL Wayne Gliddon, Gidgegannup, AUSTRALIA JPW Marty Schafer & Jan Sacks, Carlisle, MA WLP Bettie Loppnow, Elmira, OR JRG Joyce Ragle, North Highlands, CA Wv1R Walter Moores, Oakland, MS JSC Jack SChweitzer, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA WSH William Shear, Hampton-Sydney, VA listing of all seed packets enclosed. Be sure to DONATING SEED include your name and address. For 2001 seed please mail all seeds by November The SIGNA Seed Exchange is the main fundraiser \ 1 O. Overseas donors please mail all seeds by for SIGNA. The proceeds go toward the publication October 30. For later ripening seed please of our SIGNA Bulletin. They also help to keep dues send a list of the late species and a brief description low and when funds permit, help to sponsor of each by the above dates, so they may be included collecting trips, special publications, and research in the list. Late ripening seed donations must be grants. Please support SIGNA by donating received no later than December 30. Seeds seed in 2001. Send seed to: received after these dates may be used as extras or held for the following season's list. Seed Chairs - Marty Schafer & Jan Sacks 337 Acton Street All seeds from the Iridaceae are welcome in the Carlisle, MA 01741 USA Exchange. Especially popular are seeds from hand- pollinations, wild collections or species that have not [email protected] appeared for a year or two. Other than these, there are no particular groups that are more popular than others. There are at least 5 requests each for 95% of the donations. PLEASE tryto hand-pollinate one or two of the species in your garden specifically for the Seed 2000 SEEDLIST: Exchange, either by using two clones of the same species or by selfing. Hand pollination assures that a particular species will come true from seed. This is A,B,C, Dwarf, Median and Tall-Bearded donor especially important for those species that cross with other species readily (beardeds, arils, sib's, peN's, 00A001 attica H P--50+ HMT LA's, spurias, etc.). 00A002 lutescens H Po-ex. France, very dwarf HMT 50 00A003 pumila H P--'Piroshka' X red-violet ex. PMR Most of us live near an area where irises grow wild. Stavropol 25+ Wild collected seed is extremely popular and the 00A004 pumila H P--darkviolet 25+ HMT C?9 best way to receive genetic diversity. If you know an 00A005 pumila H P--selfed purple ex. NARGS CLN area where irises are growing wild, please make a trip 00A006 pumila--ex. Stavropol, bicolored red- PMR to collect from as many plants as possible. Even if it violet and blue-violet 50+ is a widespread species in the U.S., we have many 00A007 pumila--serbian #85-3 25- EHB overseas members who would like to grow seeds of 00A008 reichenbachii H P--diploid yellow 50+ HMT our natives. Overseas members: we'd like to grow 00A009 suaveolens H P--100+ HMT seeds of your native species too! 00B010 aphylla '61-56A'--50+ TVR 00B011 aphylla 'Aphylla Wine Red'--25- EHB 00B012 aphylla 'Bohemica'--25+ TVR As for quantity, 100 to 1000 seeds are ideal, but any 00B013 aphylla 'Bohemica'--25- EHB amount is welcome. Even if you only have 1 packet 00B014 aphylla 'Dark Violet'--25- TVR of seeds to send, please do so -- they will be greatly 00B015 aphylla 'Polonica'--100+ TVR appreciated. Paper envelopes are the preferred 00B016 aphylla 'Tiberica'--150+ TVR method for packaging seed. Please do not use film 00B017 aphylla 'Wine Red'--50+ TVR canisters, small boxes, etc. as they are impossible to 00B018 aphylla-Werckmeister 25+ EHB organize. 00B019 aphylla H P--Dunderman clone X 61- TVR 56A 25- Mark each envelope clearly and legibly with the 00B020 aphylla H P--Dunderman clone X TVR Prod an 25+ correct name. If it is a named clone, please provide 00B021 illyrica--pale blue F, purple veining, PPR the species or hybrid group to which it belongs. If it mauveS 25+ is from hand polllnatlon, mark it HP; if it is wild 00B022 variegata '61-72'--25- TVR collected write "wild collected" and give the town, 00B023 variegata 'Beardlsey'--50+ TVR county, state, country and elevation if known; if it is 00B024 variegata 'Cook'--25- TVR from plants growing in your garden that were wild 00B025 variegata var. pontica--25 HKT collected, write "ex.", then give the above 00B026 variegata var. reginae--25 HKT information; if it is grown from seed received from 00B027 'Brown Duster--SDB 25- RST someone else or a seed exchange (SIGNA, 00B028 'Lemon On Ice'--SDB 25- RST BIS, NARGS), so indicate and give the year and 00B029 'Path of Gold'--SDB 25- RST number if known. Otherwise try to give a brief 2 to 4 00B030 'Pilgrim's Choice'--SDB 50+ RST () 00B031 'Plum Topping'--SDB 50+ RST word description, especially if there are any unique 008032 'Rio Amazona'--SDB 25- RST characteristics. Please include with each mailing a 00B033 MTBs--mixed 50+ JWT OOC034 croanca-zs- TVR 00J076 sanguinea--ex. 94J028 'Kamayama' OVL 200+ 00C03S germanica H Po-ex. NW Greece, HMT OOJ077 sanguinea--ex. 95J048 SO+ IPG ; ) 48chr., fertile 200+ 00J078 sanguinea--ex. 95JOSO 'Kamayama' IPG 00C036 pallida H P--100+ HMT 100+ 00C037 pallida 'YSA'--2S+ TVR 00J079 sibirica--(probably) ex. Glendale Seed DGS 00C038 pallida--2S- FTL Bank, coil. Russia as I. caucasica, very nice cultivar 9000+ 00J080 sibirica--blue 400+ JWT D,E,F,G,H, Hexapogon, Oncogelia Hybrids, 00J081 sibirica--coll.