Paeonia

Accepted species 42 Documented here 14 Family Paeoniaceae

Accepted species 42 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Paeonia californica Nutt. 466 documented
Paeonia anomala L. 328 documented
Paeonia brownii Douglas ex Hook. 185 documented
Paeonia daurica Andrews 93 documented
Paeonia tenuifolia L. 91 documented
Paeonia broteri Boiss. & Reut. 52 documented
Paeonia officinalis L. 31 documented
Paeonia obovata Maxim. 30 documented
Paeonia algeriensis Chabert 20 documented
Paeonia lactiflora Pall. 16 documented
Paeonia arietina G.Anderson 10 documented
Paeonia corsica Sieber ex Tausch 10 documented
Paeonia kesrouanensis (J.Thiébaut) J.Thiébaut 4 documented
Paeonia mascula (L.) Mill. 3 documented
Paeonia peregrina Mill. 2 below the evidence gate
Paeonia ludlowii (Stern & G.Taylor) D.Y.Hong 1 below the evidence gate
Paeonia veitchii Lynch 1 below the evidence gate
Paeonia × kayae Özhatay 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia × maleevii Kem.-Nath. ex Mordak & Punina 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia × saundersii Stebbins 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia × suffruticosa Andrews 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia archibaldii Rukšāns 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia baokangensis Z.L.Dai & T.Hong 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia cambessedesii (Willk.) Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia cathayana D.Y.Hong & K.Y.Pan 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia clusii Stern 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia coriacea Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia decomposita Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia emodi Royle 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia intermedia C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia jishanensis T.Hong & W.Z.Zhao 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia mairei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia ostii T.Hong & J.X.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia parnassica Tzanoud. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia qiui Y.L.Pei & D.Y.Hong 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia rockii (S.G.Haw & Lauener) T.Hong & J.J.Li ex D.Y.Hong 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia sandrae Camarda 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia saueri D.Y.Hong, Xiao Q.Wang & D.M.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia sterniana H.R.Fletcher 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia wendelboi Rukšāns & Zetterl. 0 below the evidence gate
Paeonia yananensis T.Hong & M.R.Li 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.