Brown's Peony
$40.00 USD
Created in the tradition of 19th-century botanical plates, then reviewed by hand before it goes anywhere near a shirt. Yours is printed fresh when you order it.
Style: Short Sleeve
Description
This women's tee is made from 6.1 oz 100% ring-spun US cotton in a boxy, slightly cropped mid-length cut. It features a topstitched ribbed collar, shoulder-to-shoulder twill tape, a seamless body, and a double-needle bottom hem. Dyed with OEKO-TEX certified low-impact dyes in a WRAP-certified facility, using a salt-free clean pigment process that uses about half the water of conventional pigment dyeing. Boxy fit, sizes S–2XL — it runs close to the body, so size up for a looser drape. Slight shade variation between garments is normal.
Size Chart
Garment measurements in inches, laid flat.
| Size | Body length | Body width |
|---|---|---|
| S | 20" | 18 1/4" |
| M | 21" | 20 1/4" |
| L | 22" | 22" |
| XL | 23" | 24" |
| 2XL | 24" | 26" |
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Meet Brown's peony
Paeonia brownii Douglas ex Hook.
Brown’s peony is a western American perennial whose nodding, maroon flowers support an unusual mixture of insect visitors. In Oregon’s Blue Mountains, researchers found that individual flowers remained open for roughly nine to fifteen days, secreting nectar from fleshy lobes around their centres throughout that period. Bernhardt, Meier and Vance (2013): Pollination ecology and floral function of Brown’s peony, Journal of Pollination Ecology 11:9–20
Bloom window
Western United States
The North American flora records flowering mainly in May and June, with records extending from March into August. Flora of North America, volume 8: Paeonia brownii
Native range
Native to the western United States, it occurs from Washington and Oregon inland to Montana, Wyoming and Utah and south into California and Nevada. Its habitats include open dry pine woodland, sagebrush and mountain scrub, and aspen stands. Kew Plants of the World Online: Paeonia browniiFlora of North America, volume 8: Paeonia brownii
Ecological relationships
At the Oregon study site, wasp queens, the hoverfly Criorhina caudata and Lasioglossum sweat bees were common pollen vectors. Bernhardt, Meier and Vance (2013): Pollination ecology and floral function of Brown’s peony, Journal of Pollination Ecology 11:9–20
The study also reared Euxoa ustula moths from caterpillars found feeding on the peony’s floral tissues. Bernhardt, Meier and Vance (2013): Pollination ecology and floral function of Brown’s peony, Journal of Pollination Ecology 11:9–20
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