Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Calot
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1857
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Late Midseason (week 5)
Late (week 6)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Rose-pink with crisp, fluffy petals of translucent texture, notched and silvered at the tips and occasionally flecked with crimson in the center.

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

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony
Also sold as:
  • President Taft

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Date: c. 1935
photo from the 1935 catalog, Robert Wayman, Bayside, New York
Uploaded by SoCalGardenNut
Location: Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
Photo courtesy of: Kor!An
Uploaded by SoCalGardenNut
Uploaded by SoCalGardenNut
Uploaded by SoCalGardenNut
Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-06-04
Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-06-04
Location: Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
Date: 2012-06-09
Photo courtesy of: Kor!An

Date: c. 1937
photo from the 1937 catalog, Elliott's Nursery, Evans City, Penns
Location: Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
Photo courtesy of: Kor!An
Location: Botanical Garden of Moscow State University
Date: 2012-06-09
Photo courtesy of: Kor!An
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Comments:
  • Posted by LizinElizabeth (Columbiana Alabama - Zone 8a) on Oct 12, 2014 9:44 AM concerning plant:
    American Peony Society considers this peony the same as President Taft.

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