Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Shaylor
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1917
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Late (week 6)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: " immense guards of pale rose, a collar of flesh-white, and a slightly darker shade in the compact, rose-like center" and "decidedly pink on opening, it becomes almost white with a greenish tint at the base of the petal"
Flower size: large

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-05
A bloom still in the process of opening, and still with a good fl
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-06
A comparison between a white and a pink bloom of the same peony,
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-05
A more mature bloom that has lost most of its pink color.
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-05
These buds are paler pink than some that this cultivar produces.
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-06
In certain light, the pink in the blooms has a lavender cast.
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-06
This cultivar produces blooms on long scraggly stems.  The stems

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
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