The following is a brief summary of the most important literature relating to peonies. A more extensive bibliography can be found in the 'The Gardener's Guide to Growing Peonies' by Martin Page. Dr. Carsten Burkhardt also has an extremely detailed bibliography on his web site

Anderson, G. (1818) A monograph of the genus Paeonia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12, p. 248-290.

Baker, J. G. (1884) Monograph of the genus Paeonia. Gardener's Chronicle, 21, p. 732, 779-780, 828 and 22, p. 9-10.

Cullen, J & Heywood, V.H. (1964) Notes on the Europaean Species of Paeonia. Feddes Repertorium, 69, p. 32-35.

Farrer, R.J. (1917) On the Eaves of the World. 1, p. 110-113. Arnold.

Fearnley-Whittingstall, J. (1999) Peonies - The Imperial Flower. Weidenfield & Nicholson.

Halda, Josef J., Waddick, Jaems W. (2004) The Genus Paeonia. Timber Press.

Haworth-Booth, M. (1963) The Moutan or Tree Peony. Constable, London.

Hong, T., Zhang, J. X., Li, J.J., Zhao, W.Z. & Li, M.R. (1992) Study on the Chinese Wild Woody Peonies I. New Taxa of Paeonia L. Sect. Moutan D.C. Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 12 (3): p. 223-234.

Hong, T. & Osti, G. L. (1994) Study on the Chinese Wild Woody Peonies II. New Taxa of Paeonia L. Sect. Moutan D.C. Op. Cit. 14 (3); p. 237-240.

Kemularia-Nathadze, L.M. (1961) Caucasian Representatives of the Genus Paeonia L. Translated by Nikolay Kravchuk and Valeriy Kuznetsov. Tr. Tbilisi Botanical Instute, 21, 51p. Tbilisi.

Kemularia-Nathadze, L.M. (1980) K voprocy nomenklatura i takxonomii Paeonia chamaeleon Troitsky i ego blizkikh vidov.

Zameki Po Sistematike Geografii Rastenii, Tiflis, 36, p. 22-24.Kessenich, G.M. ed. (1976) A history of the Peonies and their originations. American Peony Society.

Kessenich, G.M. ed. (1979) The best of 75 years. American Peony Society.Kessenich, G.M. ed. Peonies 1976-1986. American Peony Society.Kessenich, G.M. ed. Peonies 1986-1996. American Peony Society.

Klehm, R.G. (1993) The Peony. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London.

Lomakin, A.A. (1897) De Paeoniis Novis in Caucaso Crescentibus. Acta. Hort. Tiflis, 2, p. 280-284.

Osti, Gian Lupo (1999) The Book of Tree Peonies. Originally published in Italian as 'Il Libro delle Peonie'. Umberto. Translated into English by Marion Cooper and Tony Johnson.

Özhatay, N. & Özhatay, E. (1995) A new white Paeonia L. from North-Western Turkey: P. mascula Miller subsp. Bodurii N. Özhatay. The Karaca Arboretum Magazine, 3, Pt.1 p.17-26.

Page, M. L. (1997) The Gardener's Guide to Growing Peonies. David & Charles Ltd., Newton Abbot.

Pei, Yan-long & Hong, De-yuan (1995) Paeonia qiui - A new woody species of Paeonia from Hubei, China. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, 33 (1), p. 91-93.

Rivière, M. Le Monde fabuleux des Pivoines. Ulmer.

Sabine, Joseph (1826) On the Paeonia Moutan or Tree Peony, and it's varieties. Trans. of the Hort. Soc. of London., 6, p. 465-492.

Stapf, O. (1931) Paeonia tomentosa. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 155, t. 9249

Stearn, W.T. & Davis, P.H. (1984) Peonies of Greece. Goulandris Natural History Museum,

J.Makris S.A.Stern, F.C. (1946) A study of the Genus Paeonia. Royal Horticultural Society, London. The University Press, Aberdeen.

Wang, L. et al. (1998) Chinese Tree Peony. The Peony Association of China. China Forestry Publishing House.

Wister, J.C. et al. (1962) The Peonies. 2nd Reprint (1995). The American Peony Society.