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Channel Island poppy, Channel Islands poppy, island-poppy

Habit Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous.
Leaves

basal and cauline;

blade glabrous; ultimate lobes elongate, obtuse.

Inflorescences

cymose or 1-flowered;

buds erect, blunt or rounded short-acuminate, tip less than 1/4 length of bud.

Flowers

receptacle obconic, less than 2.5 cm broad, cup without spreading free rim;

calyx acuminate, glabrous;

petals yellow, sometimes with orange spot at base, 5-20 mm.

Capsules

4-7 cm.

Seeds

brown, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 mm, reticulate.

2n

= 24.

Eschscholzia ramosa

Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
Habitat Open places, especially in chaparral
Elevation 0-300 m (0-1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico
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Discussion

Within the flora area, Eschscholzia ramosa is known only from the California Channel Islands.

(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. glyptosperma, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. lobbii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. rhombipetala
Synonyms E. elegans var. ramosa
Name authority (Greene) Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13: 217. (1886)
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