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Eschscholzia ramosa

Eschscholzia caespitosa

Channel Island poppy, Channel Islands poppy, island-poppy

collarless California poppy, foothill poppy, gold poppy, tuft eschscholzia, tuft poppy
Habit Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Plants annual, caulescent, erect, tufted, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes slightly glaucous.
Leaves

basal and cauline;

blade glabrous; ultimate lobes elongate, obtuse.

basal and cauline;

blade with ultimate lobes short (giving compact appearance), obtuse or acute.
Inflorescences

cymose or 1-flowered;

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

cymose or 1-flowered;

buds erect, apiculate-acuminate, tip usually more 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.

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

calyx apiculate, glabrous;

petals yellow, sometimes with orange spot at base, 10-25 mm.
Capsules

4-7 cm.

4-8 cm.
Seeds

brown, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 mm, reticulate.

brown to black, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5-2.4 mm, reticulate.
2n

= 24.

= 12.

Eschscholzia ramosa

Eschscholzia caespitosa
Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). Flowering spring (Mar–May).
Habitat Open places, especially in chaparral Open chaparral
Elevation 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico
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from FNA
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.)

Eschscholzia caespitosa grows in the mainland foothills.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia Papaveraceae > Eschscholzia
Sibling taxa
E. caespitosa, E. californica, E. glyptosperma, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. lobbii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. rhombipetala
E. californica, E. glyptosperma, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. lobbii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. ramosa, E. rhombipetala
Synonyms E. elegans var. ramosa
Name authority (Greene) Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13: 217. (1886) Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 408. (1835)
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