Key to Paeonia

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(For a list of species in Paeonia, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Petals ± round, < inner sepals, maroon to bronze, margins ± yellow or ± green; 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

 segment tips generally 

obtuse 

Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.

or rounded; stem 20–40 cm; leaves generally 5–8 per stem, glaucous, especially abaxially ..... P. brownii

1' Petals 

elliptic 

In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear

, > inner sepals, black-red, margins pink to red; leaf segment tips generally long-acute; stem 35–75 cm; leaves generally 7–12 per stem, paler green but not strongly glaucous abaxially ..... P. californica

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