Paeonia browniiDouglas ex Hook.

Brown's Peony

WFO wfo-0000480513 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Paeonia brownii, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. a Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 201300034
Paeonia brownii, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. b Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201299603
Paeonia brownii, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. c Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201299684
Paeonia brownii, photographed by James H. Thomas
fig. d James H. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198249736
Paeonia brownii, photographed by Lindsey Salmonson
fig. e Lindsey Salmonson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193400212
Paeonia brownii, photographed by John Brew
fig. f John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143402459
Paeonia brownii, photographed by John Brew
fig. g John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143403254

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Flowering n = 210 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 210 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 1 synonym

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 brownii subsp. brownii

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.