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desert gold poppy, desert goldenpoppy, desert poppy, Mojave poppy

Habit Plants annual, scapose, erect, 5-25 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous.
Leaves

basal;

blade with ultimate lobes acute.

Inflorescences

1-flowered;

buds nodding or sometimes erect.

Flowers

receptacle conic, cup without spreading free rim;

calyx acuminate, glabrous, sometimes glaucous;

petals yellow, (10-)12-25 mm.

Capsules

4-7 cm.

Seeds

tan to brown, spheric, 1.2-1.8 mm, minutely pitted.

2n

= 14.

Eschscholzia glyptosperma

Phenology Flowering spring (Mar–May).
Habitat Desert washes, flats, slopes
Elevation 50-1500 m (200-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Discussion

Eschscholzia glyptosperma is known from the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia
Sibling taxa
E. caespitosa, E. californica, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. lobbii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. ramosa, E. rhombipetala
Name authority Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 70. (1885)
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