‘Little Red Gem’ is a low-growing herbaceous peony suitable for use in rock gardens and as a border plant. Brilliant fuchsia-red, single flowers are held just above the finely dissected leaves on a mounded plant growing to 20 inches tall. Full sun and well-drained soil are essential to the health of these plants.

Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness, and the huge variety of their colors, forms, and habits. They are divided into two main groups: herbaceous, which die to the ground in the fall; and tree peonies, which are deciduous plants with woody stems that they retain throughout the winter. A third category—the Itoh or intersectional peonies—display the extravagant blooms of tree peonies on herbaceous stems. All peonies bloom between April and June. Flowers on tree peonies appear one to two weeks before those on herbaceous peonies.