accepted name (2005):
Paeonia officinalis subsp. officinalis Passalaqua & Bernardo
Huth (1891):
P.peregrina Miller, dict. ed. VIII. n. 3. (1768) rhizomatis tuberibus oblongis stipitatis, caule simplici, 30—60 cm alto, unifloro, f. subtus pubescentibus interdum sparsissime puberulis, inf. biternatis, fff. mediis semi-trilobatis saepius in stipitem decurrentibus, laciniis oblongis vel ovalibus ca. 10 mm vel amplius latis margine integris, petalis suboctonis purpureis rarius albidis vel flavescentibus, staminibus flavis, carpellis 2—3 rectiusculis vel patentibus albo-tomentosis vel glabrescentibus, seminibus magnis ovalibus coeruleo-atris nitentibus.Floret Majo.
Synonyma: (...) Diosc. P. foemina Fuchs (1542), Lobel, Matthiol.; P. vulgaris Tragus (1546), P. foemina altera Dodon. (1616), P. foemina vulgatior J.Bauh.,
P. communis vel foemina C. Bauh., Tournef., P. officinalis a foemina L., sp. ed. I (1753), P. officinalis Retz (1783), P. rosea Host, P. lobata Rchb., P. pubens Rchb. (nec Sims), P. festiva Tausch, P. nemoralis Salisb., P. mascula Mill, P. arietina Anders.
Stearn & Davis (1984)
By 1623 when Caspar Bauhin published his [Pinax] Theatri Botanici listing about 6000 kinds of plants with their synonyms, a work it had taken him 40 years to complete, ten kinds of single peonies and four double forms had become known. These included
I. Paeonia folio nigricante splendido, quae mas (now P. mascula subsp. mascula);
II.Paeonia communis vel foemina (now P. officinalis subsp. officinalis);
III. Paeonia tenuis laciniata subtus pubescens flore purpureo (now P. officinalis subsp. humilis.)
IV. Paeonia folio subtus incano, flore albo vel pallido (which included P. clusii) and
V. Paeonia peregrina flore sature rubente (now P. peregrina).
Passalaqua & Bernardo
in: The Genus Paeonia in Italy (2004)
