From Cooley’s Iris Garden Catalog 1962 “Bright richly glowing red self, with brilliant orange beard.. By the Ridgeway color chart it is Brazil red to carmine. A real advance in red iris, tall, and very well branched.”
 ( ‘Argus Pheasant’ x ‘Garden Glory’) X seedling: ( ‘Lockwood’ x ‘General Patton’). Irisnoll 1956

HM AIS 1957