Brown's peony, native peony, western peony or Douglas' Californian paeony, Paeonia brownii. Found by Scottish botanist David Douglas near Mount Hood and sent to the Horticultural Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after a botanical illustration by Sarah Drake from Edwards’ Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, published by James Ridgway, London, 1839.

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