Eschscholzia ramosa |
Eschscholzia glyptosperma |
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Channel Island poppy, Channel Islands poppy, island-poppy |
desert gold poppy, desert goldenpoppy, desert poppy, Mojave poppy |
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Habit | Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. | Plants annual, scapose, erect, 5-25 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; blade glabrous; ultimate lobes elongate, obtuse. |
basal; blade with ultimate lobes acute. |
Inflorescences | cymose or 1-flowered; buds erect, blunt or rounded short-acuminate, tip less than 1/4 length of bud. |
1-flowered; buds nodding or sometimes erect. |
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 conic, cup without spreading free rim; calyx acuminate, glabrous, sometimes glaucous; petals yellow, (10-)12-25 mm. |
Capsules | 4-7 cm. |
4-7 cm. |
Seeds | brown, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 mm, reticulate. |
tan to brown, spheric, 1.2-1.8 mm, minutely pitted. |
2n | = 24. |
= 14. |
Eschscholzia ramosa |
Eschscholzia glyptosperma |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Open places, especially in chaparral | Desert washes, flats, slopes |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 50-1500 m (200-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico
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AZ; CA; NV; UT
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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 glyptosperma is known from the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. (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 | ||
Synonyms | E. elegans var. ramosa | |
Name authority | (Greene) Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13: 217. (1886) | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 70. (1885) |
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