Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower color description: Clear yellow with darker stamens

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9a
Plant Height: 18-24 inches
Plant Spread: 18-24 inches
Leaves: Other: Other: Blue-green, often veined or edged in reddish-purple
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant

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Common names
  • Peony
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii
  • Synonym: Paeonia mlokosewitschi
Also sold as:
  • Molly the Witch

Photo Gallery
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-08-25
Location: St Louis
Date: 2015-04-16
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: 2017-05-04
Location: St Louis
Date: 2020-04-08
Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-05-15
Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-05-15
Location: BG Bochum (Germany)
Date: 2015-09-23
Uploaded by alwaysbehindMN

Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii - circa 1908 SGS A

Date: 2011-04-24
Photo courtesy of: Klasse im Garten
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 4000-02-01
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2004-03-27
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-05-11
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire
Date: 2017-03-25
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: 2018-02-11
Location: St Louis
Date: 2020-04-08
Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-05-15
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2013-06-01
Location: Howick Hall, Northumberland UK
Date: 2019-03-28

Photo courtesy of: Escape to Christel
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2013-05-26
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2003-07-13
Location: British Columbia
Date: April 2013
Paeonia mlokosewitschii

Date: 2010-05-03
Photo courtesy of: David Farquhar

Date: 2015-05-10
Photo courtesy of: Sunchild57 Photography

Date: 2005-05-13
Photo courtesy of: Tim Waters
Location: RHS Harlow Carr gardens, Yorkshire, England UK 
Date: 2018-07-15
Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2014-05-09
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2013-07-06
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2017-08-20
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: 2022-05-08
Location: St Louis
Date: 2015-04-16
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: Autumn
Molly the Witch seed head
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: May
Molly the Witch peony
Location: A superb specimen at RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2017-05-09
Uploaded by alwaysbehindMN

Photo courtesy of: Klasse im Garten

Date: 2010-04-27
Photo courtesy of: nicolas_gent
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: May
Peony Molly the Witch

Photo courtesy of Brooks Gardens Peonies. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2014-05-25
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2014-04-14
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2011-06-05
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2012-05-28

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