Hong Deyuan, the head of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, visits Oregon’s Wallowa County to collect specimens of native peonies as part of his global research on Paeonia brownii, a peony native to the western United States. Wallowa resident and peony enthusiast Anne Oveson alerted Deyuan to the wild peony’s presence in the county.

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