Name: Paeonia mlokosewitchii;
Paeonia mlokosewitschii; Paeonia wittmanniana.
Region: Balkan, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, northern Greece, Crimea, Caucasus, Dagestan, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon.
Habitat: mountain regions; deciduous forest.
BotanyHerb; perennial.
Root: slender, carrot-shaped.
Leaves: compound, nine leaflets; alternate; ± 8 by 12 cm; leaflets wide to narrowly oval, with the largest width at midlength or towards the tip, base is more or less wedge-shaped or sometimes rounded; margin is entire, sometimes wavy; tip is rounded or has a smaller or larger sharp tip; upper surface hairless; undersides hairless or sparsely to densely covered in felty hairs.
Inflorescence: 1 flower per stem.
Flower: hermaphrodite, none to two leafy bracts; sepals 2 or 3, green; petals 5 to 8, white, light yellow, pink, red; stamens many, pale, yellow, pink or purple filaments topped by anthers that contain yellow pollen; carpels 1 to 5, glabrous, sparsely to densely covered in felty hairs, almost directly tipped by the stigmas which are mostly curved or S-shaped from above.