Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Lemoine
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1907
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Anemone
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: Creamy white, cupped guards rarely splashed with red; center composed of short, narrow petals of canary-yellow, becoming light with age.

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Pollinators: Various insects
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
  • Garden Peony
Also sold as:
  • Primevère

Photo Gallery
Location: My Gardens
Date: May 2015
Early Morning Sunlight
Location: Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2019-06-12
Primevère - Typical blooms, with a strong differentiation betwee
Location: My Gardens
Date: June 4, 2016
Early Morning Sunlight
Location: Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2017-06-02
Primevère - Buds are a soft blush pink.  Some years I can see a
Location: My Gardens
Date: May 30, 2016
Light Shade- Early Morning
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-07-18
Super sweet pink guard petals while opening (wish it could last a
Location: My Gardens
Date: May 30, 2017
In Morning Sun
Location: Alpine Lake, West Virginia | May, 2023
Date: 2023-05-27
Location: Poland
Date: 2023-07-19
Pastel pink guard petals change into off-white very quickly, stil
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-06-04
Photo by frankrichards16
Location: Dutch Girl Peonies, Beasley, British Columbia
Date: 2017-06-17
- Beautiful shape of petals - - - capturing the sunlight.

Date: c. 1928
photo from the 1928 catalog, Lee R. Bonnewitz, Van Wert, Ohio
Photo by Cem9165
Location: My Gardens
Date: May 28, 2017
Close Up View In Overcast
Location: Southern Indiana 
Date: 2019-05-19
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'Primevere' (4-JAP-W) Chinese or lactiflora [Peony], pay
Location: Wiesbaden - Germany
Date: 2014-05-24
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'Primevere' (4-JAP-W) Chinese or lactiflora [Peony], pay

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