Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Flower Form: Single
Flower Color: Red

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 12 to 24 inches (30-61cm)
Plant Spread: 9 to 18 inches (20-45cm)
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
3"-4"
Flower Time: Spring
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Needs specific temperature: warm, cool, warm cycles
Other info: an epigeal germinator
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Fern Leaf Peony
  • Fernleaf Peony
  • Itoba
  • Itobah
  • Peony
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Paeonia tenuifolia
  • Synonym: Paeonia tenuifolia subsp. biebersteiniana
  • Synonym: Paeonia biebersteiniana
  • Synonym: Paeonia lithophila
Also sold as:
  • 'Itopa Shakuyaki'

Photo Gallery
Photo by MaryDurtschi
Location: From my garden. Poland.
Date: 2019-03-25
Location: Russia, Krasnodar region, Novokubansk
Date: 2022-04-26
Location: Critter's garden in Frederick MD
Date: 2015-05-10

Date: 2008-05-11
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2018-05-04
Single pink fernleaf peony
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-04
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Location: From my  garden. Poland.
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Date: 2019-04-06
9 sets of cotyledons plus 1 seedling still emerging from the seed
Location:  In my garden. Poland.
Date: 2022-05-13
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2001-05-01

Photo courtesy of: Clivid
Photo by gemini_sage
Location: NYBG 
Date: June 14 22
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-05-11
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11

Date: 2014-03-29
Photo courtesy of: Filip Maljkovic

Date: 2011-08-02
Paeonia tenuifolia - circa 1868 SGS
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2018-05-03
Single pink fern leaf peony
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-10-13
Location: Display bed at Edrom nursery, Scotland
Date: 2008-05-02
Location: Poznań Botanical Garden of the University of Adama Mickiewicza, Poland
Date: 2022-05-10

Image Courtesy of Monches Farm Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Image Courtesy of Monches Farm Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Front garden
Date: April 2015
Location: Pleasan Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-17
In a friends garden
Location:  In my garden. Poland.
Date: 2022-05-13
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin

Date: 2015-04-07

Date: 2015-04-07
Location: Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photo by xeronema
Location: From my  garden. Poland.
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-08
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-04
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-04
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-04
Young plant
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-05-22
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: April 29, 2012
photo by James Steakley

Date: 2015-04-08
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Comments:
  • Posted by critterologist (Frederick, MD - Zone 6b) on May 18, 2015 11:00 AM concerning plant:
    I love this peony! The foliage is distinctive, and the bloom is a lovely deep red. It gets bigger and blooms more every year (like any peony, I suppose). I appreciate that it shoots up earlier than other herbaceous peonies, so it's less likely to be stepped on by small feet when the kids are picking daffodils.
Plant Events from our members
MrsBinWY On April 9, 2022 Bloomed
On 4-9-2022, Joyce reported that one of the two plants I gave her (probably in 2019) has a bud on it. She's kept her plants in a pot and brought them into her greenhouse in the winter.
MrsBinWY On May 25, 2020 Transplanted
1 at end of back rain garden on 5-25-2020; 1 in back side yard where Hibiscus moscheutos were on 5-25-2020; 1 in curve of branch in rose hugel on 6-27-20; 1 with 'Spring Pink' lilies near Mountain Ash stump on 6-27-20; 1 in old herb bed on 6-27-20
MrsBinWY On October 26, 2019 Potted up
dug 7 up, potted them up and overwintered them in the sunroom
MrsBinWY On July 7, 2019 Transplanted
On 7-7-2019, planted 8 in garden hoop. (Gave the other 2 to Joyce.)
MrsBinWY On May 11, 2019 Potted up
10 in fairly deep pots.
MrsBinWY On April 6, 2019 Seeds germinated
10 up
MrsBinWY On August 1, 2018 Seeds sown
20 seeds (all) from Sheffields. Soaked 24 hours; 90 days warm stratification; 90 cold stratification
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