Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Crousse
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1886
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Late Midseason (week 5)
Flower Form: Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: "Bright rose-pink, with much blue —almost a mauve-pink—paling toward the tips of the petals whose serrated edges give the flower a crisp appearance". In shady or overcast conditions it can look more lavender than pink.
Flower size: very large

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Malodorous
Flower Color: Mauve
Pink
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer

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Common names
  • Peony
Also sold as:
  • Claire Dubois

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2016-06-06
Claire Dubois (Bed 27)  Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum,  Ann A
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-06
Claire Dubois (Bed 27)  In 2018 blooms of this cultivar were unif
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Claire Dubois (Bed 27) Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum Ann Arbo
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-06
Claire Dubois (Bed 27)  Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum  Ann Ar

Date: c. 1912
photo from the 1912 catalog, Good & Reese, Springfield, Ohio

Date: c. 1929
photo by Miss Lillie Degler from the 1929 catalog, Mohican Peony
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