Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: A. P. Saunders
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1950
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Other: a lobata hybrid
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Very glowing carmine-red, loosely semi-double. The most cerise of the reds of this strain. "glowing red, tulip shaped flower on a rounded, tidy, dwarf plant"
Flower size: small to medium
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 16 to 20 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Parentage: lac #1875 x lobata (Perry)

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Common names
  • Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-05-30
Paladin peony - classic semi-double bloom
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-03
Paladin peony - side view of opening bloom.  Depth of color depen
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2022-05-27

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-05-30
Paladin peony - young plant (planted fall 2016, photographed May
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2017-06-03
Paladin peony - buds.  The buds are more pointed or elongated tha

Date: 2007-01-30
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Date: 4000-03-12
Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy

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