Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: White
Pink
Flower color description: "Very long petals of delicate flesh-pink, paling to white in the center." Some blooms produce a tuft of white petals/petaloids in the center of a ring of stamens.
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
Plant Height: 2 to 3 feet
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
White
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2014-05-31
Pallas peony - a fairly typical bloom with a small tuft of white
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-05-28
Pallas peony - a bloom with only a few very small petals interrup
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-27
Pallas peony - stamens with yellow filaments surrounding pale gre
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-05-27
Pallas peony - one of two plants in the collection
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-05-28
Pallas peony - buds, opening a deeper pink than most mature bloom

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