Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Shaylor
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1916
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early (week 2)
Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: "Very dark crimson petals with a blackish sheen mingled with yellow stamens". Some silvering as blooms age. Silvering can be extensive.
Flower size: medium to large

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

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-30
(2017) Heavy silvering on the tips of the curled petals.  There's
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-04
Relatively healthy looking blooms and foliage from 2016.  If only
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2015-06-06
Shot in 2015 when the plants of William F Turner were still relat
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Last year (2019), this plant had sickly looking leaves.  Only a f
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
One of the few bloooms that even opened in 2019.  It's a rather p
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-30
(2017) A bloom that shows less of the prominent silvering that ca
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: Heirloom Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, MI
Date: 2011-06-06

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