Peony (Paeonia 'May Lilac') in the Peonies Database - Garden.org

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Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant:	Saunders
Year of Registration or Introduction:	1950
Cultivar Group (Type):	Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom:	Early (week 2)
Flower Form:	Single Semi-Double
Flower Color:	Lavender Pink
Flower color description:	Clear lilac. "cup shaped flowers of a unique and very bright lavender color", yellow-green carpels with cherry pink stigmas, stamens with yellow filaments
Flower size:	medium
Needs support:	No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic
Fruit:	Dehiscent
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Time:	Spring Late spring or early summer
Parentage:	Paeonia lactiflora x Paeonia macrophylla

Common names

Peony
Garden Peony

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Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 16, 2015
After rain shower.

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2015-05-16

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Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2016-05-24

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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-05-28
Whether the blooms of 'May Lilac' look pink or lilac depends on l

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Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2024-05-11
Great spring colour

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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-05-29
Note the large broad dark green leaves, characteristic for this c

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2020-05-29
An aging bloom shows pale green fuzzy carpels with red stigmas.

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2015-05-16
Note the large green foliage

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Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2024-05-11

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2018 photo, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid Peony, (Saunde

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2015-05-16

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2017, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2017, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2018-05-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2018 photo, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid Peony, (Saunde

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Location: W E Upjohn Peony Garden, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-25
It smells as good as it looks.

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Date: 2007-01-30
Courtesy Peony Paradise

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2017, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-26
"Paeonia 'May Lilac', 2017, (2-SL-PK) Hybrid [Peony], pay-OHN-ee-

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Comments:

Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 21, 2018 5:23 PM concerning plant:

"Paeonia 'May Lilac', (2-SL-PK) Hybrid Peony, (Saunders, 1950), USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Medium height, single, Lavender petals, cupped, red stigmas, yellow stamens, no side-buds, green rounded foliage, early bloomer, Michigan Bloom Month 5-6.

A cross of P. lactiflora x P. macrophylla, A dead giveaway in identifying features of this peony are the leaves, they are somewhat round. I have no other peonies with this type of foliage."

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