Paeonia arietina

Şakayık

Syn: P.mascula ssp arietina

Leaves simply biternate, or with some leaflets further divided, thus with 9-16 narrowly to broadly elliptic segments, glabrous to pilose beneath. Flowers 8-14 cm across, petals red. Follicles 3-5, 2-4 cm, white-tomentose, with a truncate apex and sessile stigma. - A complex species, of which 2 subspecies occur in Turkey:

1-Leaves pilose beneath with 12-16 segments …………………………………………..subsp. arietina

1-Leaves glabrous or sparsely pilose beneath with 9-10 segments .....................subsp. mascula

Italy, Balkan Peninsula.