Section 2B. Paeonia
	Lateral roots fusiform or tuberous. Lower leaves biternate or triternate; leaflets nearly always segmented with leaflets/leaf segments (9-)21-340 in number; leaves mostly with bristles along veins above. Flowers solitary and terminal; sepals mostly rounded at apex. Mostly tetraploid (diploid only in P. intermedia and P. tenuifolia).
	Included species (7)
		Paeonia arietina
		Paeonia intermedia
		Paeonia officinalis
		Paeonia parnassica
		Paeonia peregrina
		Paeonia saueri
		Paeonia tenuifolia
	Distribution: from Middle Asia to the northern Mediterranean.