SIGNA: Species Iris Group of North America 2005 / 39th 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 about January 15. Orders received after that date will be filled as time permits. NO orders will be filled ff received after March 15. Please note the $1 handling charge per order. 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 $9.00 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. If you are already a member and wish to pay your dues at the same time you may do that also. After each item in the seed list 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 D..Qj 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. We will NOT send more than one packet per listing. The following abreviations are used in the seedlist: HP means Hand Pollinated, OP means Open 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, wild location, or a garden) 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 Pogoniris, series Intermedeae is underB and so on. The Study Manual, The Iris by Brian Mathew, Iris of China by James Waddick and Zhao Yu-tang, The World of lridaceae by Clive Innes, and the SIGNA Checklists are used as references when verifying names. In a few instances, we included names which we were unable to verify. You should also consult the SIGNA ,~ Species Database. The address is www.badbear.comlsigna. On it you can view information and photos of many iris V species including photos of flowers, plants, and seeds. PLEAS E NOTE: This is the last yearthe SIGNA seed list will include Iris pseudacorus. It will become illegal to import and/orsellthis plant orits seeds in June 2006 in MA, the home state of the seed Chairmen. (This continues to be a fine iris species to grow in the garden as long as the seeds are not dispersed into the wild.) Our grateful thanks to the following donors: ABL AI Bullock, Sterling, VA JPW Marty Schafer & Jan Sacks, Carlisle, MA AMC Alan McMurtrie, Willowdale, ONT, CANADA JRG Joyce Ragle, North Highlands, CA ARO Audrey Roe, Albuquerque, NM JWG John Wight, West Covina, CA BCH Bill Chaney, San Juan Bautista, CA JWT Jean Witt, Seattle, WA BWN Brian Wendel, Ossian, IN KDI Kalaszine Ilona, Budapest HUNGARY CIS Connecticut Iris Society KMR Kevin Morley, Mission Hills, KS CLN Carla Lankow, Renton, WA KWK Kenneth Walker, Concord, CA DHI Debbie Hinchey, Anchorage, AK KWL Ken Walkup, Ithaca, NY DKR Dennis Kramb, Liberty Township, OH MGN Memorial University of Newfoundland, CANADA DPR Darrell Probst, Hubbardston, MA MGR Michael Greenfield, Middletown, OH DSL David Silverberg, Molalla, OR MRB Michele Roberge, Round Pond, ME DSR Donald Sorensen, Greenville, MI MUN Michael Unser, Olympia, WA DVL Dennis VanLanduyt, Versailles, MO MZR Michael Zuraw and Hao Chang, Bethel, CT EGA Ewi Gallagher, Ogden, UT NZI New Zealand Iris Society, NEW ZEALAND EHL Elaine P. Hulbert, Floyd, VA RBR Rodney Barton, Hickory Creek, TX FBN Fred Bonthuis, Ooltgensplaat, NETHERLANDS RKN Robert Kontak, Camillus, NY GBN George Brinson, Carmanville, NF, CANADA RRH Robyn Rohrlach, Via Wodonga,Victoria,AUSTRALIA HAN Helga Andrews, Sudbury, MA RSP Richard Sparling, Pomfret Center, CT HMf Harald Mathes, Gladbeck, GERMANY RST Robert Strohman, Louisville, KY ITH Irmgard Thiele, Dunrobin, ON CANADA SSH Steve Shepard, Gauitier, MS o JLB John and Lucy Burton, S. Hamilton, MA STL Sondra Tillou, Kingston, NY JML Joyce Miller, Sacramento, CA TIM Tomas Tamberg, Berlin, GERMANY JNH Josefine Neuhercz, Budapest, HUNGARY DONATING SEED For 2006 seed please mail all seeds by November especially if there are any unique characteristics. 10. Overseas donors please mail all seeds by Seeds with these descriptions are always more October 30 and see special note below. For popular. Be sure to include your name and address. A later ripening seed please send a list of the late seed count estimate would be appreciated. species and a brief description of each by the above dates, so they may be included in the list. Late ripening seed donations must be received no later than December 30. Seeds received after these The SIGNA Seed Exchange is the main fund raiser for dates may be used as extras or held for the following SIGNA. The proceeds go toward the publication of our season's list. SIGNA Bulletin and when funds permit, help to sponsor collecting trips, special publlcations, and All seeds from the Iridaceae are welcome in the research grants. Please support SIGNA by Exchange except I. pseudacorus (see note previous donating seed in 2006. Send seed to: page). Especially popular are seeds from hand- pollinations, wild collections or species that have not Seed Chairs - Marty Schafer & Jan Sacks appeared for a year or two. Other than these, there are 337 Acton Street no particular groups that are more popular than others. Carlisle, MA 01741 USA There are at least 5 requests each for 95% of the donations. 978-371-0173 [email protected] PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE try to hand- pollinate one or two of the species in your garden specifically for the Seed Exchange, either by using two FOREIGN DONORS: Please contact the seed clones of the same species or by selfing. Hand chairs in advance to find out the current process for pollination assures that a particular species will come sending seed into the US. true from seed. This is especially important for those species that cross with other species readily (e.g. beardeds, arils, siberians, peN's, LA's, spurias, etc.). This is the only way to preserve these species! 2 005 SEEDLIST: Q Most of us live near an area where irises grow wild. Bearded -- A - Dwarf, B - Median, C-Tall donor Wild collected seed is extremely popular and the best way to receive genetic diversity. If you know an 05A001 pseudopumila HP -- ex. Sicily 25+ HMT 05A002 area where irises are growing wild, please make a trip to pseudopumila OP -- 25- RRH 05A003 pumila 'Suslik' HP -- 100+ GDV collect from as many plants as possible. Even if it is a 05A004 suaveolens OP -- standards cream, RRH widespread species in the U.S., we have many falls purple 50+ overseas members who would like to grow seeds of 05AOOS MOB 'Puppet 8aby' OP -- 2S+ KDI our natives. Overseas members: we'd like to grow seeds of your native species too! 058006 albertii HP -- selted 25+ HMT OS8007 bicapitata HP - ex. Gargano area, Italy HMT As for quantity, 100 to 1000 seeds are ideal, but any 100+ amount is welcome. Even if you only have 1 packet of 058008 junonia HP -- clone 1 x clone 2 300+ HMT seed to send, please do so - they will be greatly 058009 lutescens HP -- ex. southern France, HMT very dwarf 50+ appreciated. Paper envelopes are the preferred 05B010 lutescens OP -- syn. italica 2S+ KDI method for packaging seed. Please do not use film 058011 sp. aft. to reichenbachii HP -- tetraploid HMT canisters, small boxes, etc. as they are impossible to ex. Varda Gorge, Macedonia 50+ organize. 058012 subbiflora HP -- ex. Spain 2S+ HMT 058013 variegata OP -- 400+ DSR Mark each envelope clearly and legibly with the correct 05B014 varieqata OP -- SO+ KDI name. ~ it is a named clone, please provide the 05B015 SOB 'Blue Denim' OP -- 25+ JNH species or hybrid group to which it belongs. If it is from OSB016 SOB 'Blue Denim' OP -- 25+ KDI hand pollination, mark it HP; if it is wild collected 05B017 SOB 'Indian Pow-Wow'OP -- 50+ KDI write "wild collected" and give the town, county, state, 05B018 SOB 'Little Dream' OP -- 25+ JNH OSB019 country and elevation if known; if it is from plants SOB 'Open Sky' OP -- 2S- JNH 05B020 SOB mix OP -- 7S+ KDI growing in your garden that were wild collected, write "ex.", then give the above information; if it is 05C021 germanica HP -- 48ch., fertile, ex. NW HMT grown from seed received from someone else Greece 12S+ or a seed exchange (SIGNA, BIS, NARGS), so 05C022 pallida OP -- dark form ex. Mt. Lofty Bot RRH C) indicate. Try to give a brief two to four word description, Gdn, S. Australia 25+ OSC023 TB OP -- two-tone maroonlbeige 25- EGA 0 - Regelia and Psammiris, E - Arll Hybrids, 05J063 Siberian 'Indy' OP -- 25+ DSR F - Oncocyclus, G - Pseudoregelia, 05J064 Siberian 'Liberty Hills' OP -- 50+ STL H - Aril/Pogon Hybrids 05J065 Siberian 'Lilting Laura' OP -- 100+ STL I .) 05J066 Siberian 'Lilting Laura' OP -- 50+ JNL 050024 humilis OP -- ex. SIGNA auction '03, KW< 05J067 Siberian 'Maranantha' OP -- 100+ DSR Chua R., Russia 25+ 05J068 Siberian 'Mariah's Ruby' OP -- 500+ KMR 05J069 Siberian 'Mary Louise Michie' OP -- DSR 05H025 Arilbred HP -- 44ch.