Common peony
പിയോണിയ ഒഫിഷിനാലിസ്
Paeonia officinalis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 66 cm
- wide
- 66 cm
Paeoniaceae
Also called European peony, Garden Peony, Common Peony
Formerly Moutan officinalis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & S. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 71 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 60–70 cm
- Spread
- 61 cm to 71 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 60–70 cm
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Red, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- PAEOFF
- Catalan
- peònia de muntanya, Peònia de muntanya
- German
- Gemeine Pfingstrose, Echte Pfingstrose, Garten-Pfingstrose
- French
- Pivoine officinale
- Czech
- pivoňka lékařská
- Dutch
- Pioenroos
- Russian
- Пион лекарственный
- Norwegian Bokmål
- bondepion
- Italian
- Peonia selvatica
- Japanese
- オランダシャクヤク
- Estonian
- varajane pojeng
- Lithuanian
- Vaistinis bijūnas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Paeonia officinalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.