The cultivar 'Contrast in Styles' has rich wine colored standards, light blue style arms and wine colored falls. The flowers measure 5 inches across atop stalks that stand 28 inches high. It blooms in mid season and the thin, grass like foliage remains a highlight throughout the summer. Siberian irises lack the “beard” of colored hairs at the base of each fall that other iris groups have . Typically these irises grow together in thick clumps which keep out weeds. In 1991 Contrast in Styles was awarded Honorable Mention by the American Iris Society and in 1995 it received the Award of Merit.