Paeonia wittmanniana
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Paeonia wittmanniana, also known as Wittmann's peony, is a perennial peony
Peony
Peony or paeony is a name for plants in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the flowering plant family Paeoniaceae. They are native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America...

 native to the southern Transcaucasian region, and is closely related to Paeonia mlokosewitschii
Paeonia mlokosewitschii
Paeonia mlokosewitschii is a species of peony, native to the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan, where it grows on rocky slopes in oak, hornbeam, or beech forests....

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Paeonia wittmanniana is up to 1.5 m tall. Above the plant is glabrous and dark green; below it is lighter green, glaucescent, with white hairs especially crowded along the veins, and the lower leaves are biternate. Paeonia wittmanniana filament
Stamen
The stamen is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower...

s are red and up to 1 cm long and its anthers are yellow to orange. Its stamen are around 22 mm long. The divided leaf segments are ovate, cuneate, and often are oblique and abruptly cut off at the base.

Yellow to white flowers, 10–13 cm across, bloom from April to June.
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