source of the name:
used by A.P.Saunders for breeding (link to Saunders' notebooks)
Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society, edited by James Boyd © 1928 American Peony Society:
P. anomala, "Occurs as a wild plant in Europe, sparingly in Lapland, and in Asia it is spread all through the western half of Siberia, especially in the Ural and Altai ranges of mountains and round Lake Baikal. It is a well-marked type midway between P. tenuifolia and P. officinalis." — Baker.
Flowers bright crimson, 4 inches in diameter. (Bot. Mag., PI. 1754. Andrews Bot. Rep., 514.) Varieties:
Smouthi
intermedia
insignis
Peter Barr
The last, which we may assume to be a seedling raised in the Barr Nurseries, is a good plant with flowers of a brilliant and effective crimson.
