This herbaceous perennial has a short thick rhizome with upright foliage that forms a clump. It has divided leaves with dark green lance-shaped leaflets and the white to pink cup-shaped flowers appear from late spring to early summer.

Hardiness zones 3 to 9 

Paeonia veitchii is naturally found in north-west China growing in sub-alpine meadows and scrub or mountain grasslands at an altitude from 2500 m to 3500 m (10,500 ft). 

It prefers an open sunny to partially shade position and grows in most well-drained fertile moist sandy to light clay soils with a pH 4.5-7.5 and is  frost and mildly drought tolerant. 

Veitch's Peony is grown for its flowers and low rounded habit. It is planted in small or alpine gardens along borders were in rockeries and can be grown in containers. It is suitable to inland and mountainous regions establishing in 2-3 years and is moderately long-lived. ID 3508

Paeonia (pie-ON-ee-a) veitchii (FEE-chee-eye)

Paeoniaceae (PIE-on-ee-AY-see-ee)