The American Iris Society Announces the 2025 William Mohr Medal Winner

 'EYE OF THE STORM'

The William Mohr Medal is restricted to irises of one-quarter or more aril content that do not meet the more restrictive requirements of the Clarence G. White Medal.

It is named in honor of William A. Mohr (1871-1923). About ten years before his death, Mohr began working with irises. He obtained the tetraploid Asiatic species, as well as regelia and oncocyclus irises, and communicated with other iris hybridizers such as Ellen Sturtevant and Samuel Stillman Berry. The two greatest achievements of William Mohr's hybridizing programs are probably his plicatas and his innovative and beautiful arilbreds. His great plicatas are 'Los Angeles' and the iris that won the first American Dykes Medal, 'San Francisco'. Mohr's most important arilbred iris is the magnificent 'William Mohr.' 

Arilbred iris 'Eye of the Storm'
photo by Sutton's Iris Garden

'Eye Of The Storm' (Michael Sutton, R. 2016) Seedling AZ-403-B. AB, 13" (33 cm), Early midseason bloom; Standards and style arms imperial purple; falls red-purple, near black thumbprint; beards lavender. 'Reddy Freddie' X 'Kalifa’s Robe'. Sutton 2017.

The World of Irises blog will be posting classification medal winners as soon as the hybridizers are notified. The entire list of winners, including award of merit and honorable mention, will be published in the AIS website, the AIS Encyclopedia, and later in the AIS Bulletin, IRISES.