Book  (2005)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Paeonia obovata...robust plant ...with solitary pink, white, or red flowers....The white var. alba is the most readily available.

Magazine  (2004)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Paeonia obovata var. alba has flourished in the dappled shade of my woodland garden for 15 years. When this peony emerges in early spring, a coppery tone enhances the broadly lobed, graying leaves — a magnificent setting....

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Paeonia obovata Maxim, var. alba Saunders Native of E Siberia, N China, in Heilongjiang (Manchuria), Shaansi, Sichuan, Sakhalin and Japan, in Hokkaido, Honshu and Shikoku; growing in woods and scrub in mountains, flowering in April-June ...

Book  (Jan 2000)  Page(s) 62.  
 
The white form [of P. obovata] is often sold under the name Paeonia obovata var. alba.

Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 24.  
 
P. obovata var. alba white form [of P. obovata] holds the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

Magazine  (1979)  Page(s) 1320.  
 
Were I to be condemned to a garden in which there was space for only a very few plants I am certain that one without which I could not be entirely happy would be Paeonia obovata Alba. Its merit was recognised as long ago as 1925, when it was awarded the First Class Certificate of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Magazine  (1974)  Page(s) 35.  
 
...plump for Paeonia obovata 'Alba'. This has every quality that a good garden plant is expected to possess and is no more difficult to establish than any other paeony. Its foliage is handsome and a perfect foil to the great flowers.

Magazine  (1968)  Page(s) 305.  
 
All paeony foliage is interesting, but none more impressive than that of Paeonia obovata alba (large deeply veined rounded leaflets, tinged liver-colour in the early stages, and the flowers exquisitely shaped white "bowls")...

Magazine  (1967)  Page(s) 7.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paeonia obovata 'Alba'. Most peonies take a year or two to get established, but thereafter they increase in size and beauty with little attention.

Book  (1931)  Page(s) 58-60.  
 
...Coming now to Western China, we have two plants, or at least two names, P. obovata alba and P. Willmottiae....I consider these two identical, but the plant is a very distinct species from the P. obovata alba in Japan. The plant from Western China is a larger and far superior plant....

P. japaonica (Miyabe and Takeda, Gard. Chron. 3rd ser., vol. xlviii. p.366; 1910).- This seems to be a renaming of P. obovata alba, the native white form of the Japanese wild peony...