2025 Honorable Mention Award: Rich Howard – ‘Starman’

Registration Year: 2022
Scape Height (in): 28
Bloom Size (in): 6.5
Bloom Season: Midseason
Reblooming: Yes
Form: Single
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Foliage Type: Semi-Evergreen
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Flower Form: Single
Bud Count: 14
Branches: 2
Seedling Number: WUND 19-6
Color: Light yellow with toothy edge and variable patterned purple stripes, spots and streaks.
Parentage: (Wolverine × Undefinable)
Hybridizer(s): Richard Howard

About the Honorable Mention Award

Established in 1950, this award is the first official “stamp of approval” by the AHS, where good performance goes beyond the regional level.

To win, a cultivar must receive a minimum of fifteen votes achieve the HM. These votes must come from no fewer than four different AHS regions. In voting for this award, Garden Judges must cast their votes only for cultivars observed in their own region. Cultivars are nominated for the Honorable Mention by their hybridizers. To be eligible it must have been registered for at least three calendar years. The Awards & Honors Committee may also nominate a maximum of ten cultivars each year that have been previously overlooked. Hybridizers may nominate a cultivar a maximum of three times, though not necessarily in consecutive years. After its third nomination, a cultivar cannot be nominated by the hybridizer