Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Origin unknown
Year of Registration or Introduction: Never registered with the APS. Known by 1925
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Japanese
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: White petals, occasionally blush pink. Ivory or creamy yellow staminodes, occasionally with flesh pink tips. Dark reddish green carpels with pink stigmas
Flower size: large
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer

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Common names
  • Peony

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
(2018)  Compared with 2019 blooms, these lack the pink tips on th
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-30
Keep on going, bee.  No pollen for you here. The bee in question
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-30
Fly checking out a bud of Yeso, or maybe checking out the ants on
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-06-03
(2017)  This year some blooms, like this one, showed no pink on t
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-14
Narrow pale yellow or ivory staminodes, tipped in pale pink, surr
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-14
(2019)  In this year the staminodes were pale their entire length
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2014-06-05
(2014)  This year the Yeso blooms had staminodes that were darker
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