Description
A Crimean plant, united with Paeonia daurica by some authorities, but considered distinct by others. As most of these more easterly species are poorly known and little studied, it seems premature to unite names at this stage.
Paeonia triternata has lovely blue-green waxy foliage which is tri-ternate (split into three – three times) and lightly clothed on the leaf veins with reddish pubescence which also clothes the ovaries and fruits. These of course follow after the flowers, which are broad and spreading with purple-pink petals and yellow anthers.
With us it makes a taller, more slender plant than any of our daurica forms and the flowers tend to be paler (though this is not always the case) and significantly later.
