Paeonia anomala

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Paeonia anomala, photographed by Елена Радостева — fig. b Елена Радостева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201620330

Paeonia anomala, photographed by Tatiana Strus — fig. c Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200409951

Paeonia anomala, photographed by София Р. — fig. d София Р., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199968789

Paeonia anomala, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197047918

Paeonia anomala, photographed by Елена Кизилова — fig. f Елена Кизилова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197164457

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Paeonia anomala, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Altay	ALT	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya	BRY
Irkutsk	IRK
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Krasnoyarsk	KRA
Mongolia	MON
Tuva	TVA
West Siberia	WSB
Xinjiang	CHX
Yakutiya	YAK
East European Russia	RUE	EUROPE
North European Russia	RUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 85 in flower of 170 examined

50%

69%

14%

Proportion of examined Paeonia anomala in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	1	too few examined
May	11	22	50%	31% to 69%
Jun	69	100	69%	59% to 77%
Jul	4	28	14%	6% to 31%
Aug	0	18	0%	0% to 18%
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	1	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Paeonia anomala observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 85 of 170 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Paeonia altaica K.M.Dai & T.H.Ying
Paeonia anomala var. angustifolia Krasnob.
Paeonia anomala var. insignis Lynch
Paeonia anomala var. nudicarpa Huth
Paeonia quinquecapsularis Pall.
Paeonia sibirica Pall.
Paeonia sinjiangensis K.Y.Pan
Paeonia veitchii subsp. altaica (K.M.Dai & T.H.Ying) Halda

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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