Peony (Paeonia 'Athena') in the Peonies Database

Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant:	Saunders
Year of Registration or Introduction:	1949
Cultivar Group (Type):	Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom:	Very Early (week 1) Early (week 2)
Flower Color:	White Pink
Flower color description:	Creamy buff. Ivory-white to apricot-yellow with prominently present lavender flares at the base of the flower petals. No sidebuds.
Flower size:	Medium

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic
Plant Height:	24 to 36 inches (60-90 cm)
Leaves:	Unusual foliage color
Fruit:	Dehiscent
Flowers:	Showy Fragrant
Flower Time:	Spring
Underground structures:	Rhizome
Uses:	Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees
Propagation: Seeds:	Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods:	Division Crowns
Pollinators:	Various insects
Awards and Recognitions:	RHS AGM
Parentage:	P. lactiflora X ((P. macrophylla x P. mlokosewitschii) x P. officinalis)

Common names

Peony
Garden Peony

Photo Gallery

Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-09

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2016-05-19
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2016, (1-SL-W) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-uh H

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Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2023-05-25

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Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-14
If you're curious, those yellow-green 'droppings' are oak tree bl

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Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-14
One of the prettiest of the very early-blooming herbaceous peonie

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-05-13
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2017, (1-SL-W) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-uh H

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13

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Location: Poland. In my garden.
Date: 2014-05-20

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Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 2015

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Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-09
First bloom on a first year plant from Adelman Peony Gardens

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-13
"Paeonia 'Athena', 2018 photo, (1-SL-W) quadruple Hybrid Peony, (

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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission

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Date: 2014-01-23
Photo courtesy of: John

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Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2018-05-31

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Location: My Gardens
Date: October 6, 2017
Prior To Planting

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Date: 4000-02-21
Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

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Location: Main Botanical Garden at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow
Date: May
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Comments:

Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Mar 24, 2018 9:37 AM concerning plant:

Paeonia 'Athena' (Saunders, 1949) is an extra early blooming quadruple hybrid, a hybrid composed of four different peony species: lactiflora, officinalis, macrophylla and mlokosewitschi. An ivory-white single with raspberry flares. Gold stamens and bright green carpels with rosy pink tips. No sidebuds. Professor A.P. Saunders (1869-1953) is commonly known as the father of inter-species herbaceous hybrid peonies. He introduced around 300 hybrid peonies with the median distribution occurring in 1941.

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