Claudia
‘Claudia’ is registered as a semi-double but my plant never has more than around 12 petals so I would call it a single. I bought it at an APS convention auction before I was seriously collecting Saunders peonies and do not know who donated it.
‘Claudia’ received the Award of Landscape Merit from APS. It stands up very well after a storm but in 2020 it showed a lot of curly stems.
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| Cultivar: | Claudia |
| Year: | 1944 |
| Seedling No: | 9618. Page 22 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7: lactiflora 441 X peregrina “lobata of Perry” |
| Flower: | Color: | pink, white outer flares |
| Form: | single, 2 rows of petals, about 12, sometimes slit | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | generally 4, medium green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | rose pink | |
| Disc: | white or pale pink (Silvia Saunders’ notes) | |
| Stamens: | filaments yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow leaves, not lobed | |
| Height: | 38″ in 2022; (42″ reported) | |
| Recommendation: | Recommended |
| Availability: | Many specialty nurseries |
