Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Winchell
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1956
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Anemone
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Dark raspberry red, guard petals surround a center of ivory-colored staminodes washed and tinted pale pink, that after a day in the sun, lighten to white.
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 1991
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: 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 7b
Plant Height: 32 to 36 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Japanese Peony
  • Chinese Peony

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Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2024-06-14
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2022-06-21
White Cap full bloom
Location: An Oregon nursery
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2017-05-06
Location: Daisydo's garden
Date: 2024-05-11
White Cap Peony
Location: Daisydo's garden
Date: 2022-05-25
White Cap
Location: France
Location: Zone 6b/7a. 
Date: 2024-06-01
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2023-06-24

Date: 2021-04-06
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.

Date: 2021-02-23
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: Zone 6b/7a. 
Date: 2024-06-02
Location: Northern Germany
Date: 2022-05-30
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-11

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
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Date: 2021-03-23
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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Date: 2013-06-07
Photo courtesy of: Dinkum
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: 2013-06-09
Photo courtesy of: James Steakley
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-11

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
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Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
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