Argemone albiflora |
Argemone sanguinea |
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bluestem pricklypoppy, white prickly-poppy |
red pricklypoppy, spiny pricklypoppy |
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Habit | Plants annual or biennial. | Plants annual to short-lived perennial. | ||||
Stems | 4-10(-15) dm, sparingly to moderately prickly. |
4-8(-12) dm, sparingly prickly. |
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Leaf | blades: abaxial surface sparingly prickly on main veins, adaxial surface unarmed or sparingly prickly on main veins; basal and proximal lobed 1/2-4/5 distance to midrib; distal clasping. |
blades: abaxial surface moderately prickly on veins, adaxial surface unarmed to sparingly prickly on main veins; basal and proximal lobed to 4/5 distance to midrib. |
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Inflorescences | buds broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, body 12-18 × 10-16 mm, sparingly to rather closely prickly; sepal horns terete, 3-6(-10) mm, usually unarmed. |
buds broadly ellipsoid-oblong, body 12-20 × 10-15 mm, somewhat prickly; sepal horns often angular in cross section, 5-10 mm, slightly prickly basally. |
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Flowers | 5-10 cm broad, closely to more distantly subtended by 1-2 foliaceous bracts; petals white; stamens 150 or more; filaments lemon yellow; pistil (3-)4-5(-7)-carpellate. |
6-9 cm broad, usually closely subtended by 1-2 foliaceous bracts; petals white or lavender; stamens 150 or more; filaments lemon yellow to red; pistil 3-6-carpellate. |
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Capsules | oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or narrowly ellipsoid, 20-40(-45) × 10-15(-25) mm (including stigma and excluding prickles), prickly, surface clearly visible to partially obscured, longest prickles widely spaced, 6-10(-12) mm, sometimes interspersed with smaller ones. |
narrowly to broadly ellipsoid, 25-40(-50) × 8-15(-18) mm (including stigma and excluding prickles), prickly, surface clearly visible; prickles unequal, longest 5-7(-10) mm. |
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Seeds | 1.6-2 mm. |
ca. 1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 28, 56. |
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Argemone albiflora |
Argemone sanguinea |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring–summer; fruiting spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Coastal plains and westward | |||||
Elevation | 10-1500 m (0-4900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; FL; GA; IL; LA; MA; MI; MO; MS; NC; NY; SC; TX
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TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Durango, and Nuevo León)
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Argemone | Papaveraceae > Argemone | ||||
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Synonyms | A. platyceras var. rosea | |||||
Name authority | Hornemann: Hort. Bot. Hafn. 2: 489. (1815) | Greene: Pittonia 4: 68. (1899) | ||||
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