Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Hans P Sass
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1938
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Late (week 6)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: Pure white, with creamy glow in heart of bloom. Buds round, with no indication of red outside or within the open flower.
Flower size: Very large

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony
Also sold as:
  • Dr. F. G. Bethour

Photo Gallery
Location: Sass Memorial Iris Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2015-05-27

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
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Location: Mid-Missouri, USA
Date: 2021-04-23
Bud from a 1st year single-stem plant
Location: Caldwell, Idaho. Zone 5
Date: 2019-06-01
Single bloom on first year plant, planted Fall 2018.

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