Flora of North America species comparison

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Eschscholzia ramosa

Eschscholzia lobbii

Channel Island poppy, Channel Islands poppy, island-poppy

frying-pans
Habit Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Plants annual, scapose, erect, 5-15 cm, glabrous.
Leaves

basal and cauline;

blade glabrous; ultimate lobes elongate, obtuse.

basal;

blade glabrous, 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 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 obconic, cup without spreading free rim;

calyx acute, glabrous;

petals yellow, 7-12 mm.
Capsules

4-7 cm.

4-7 cm.
Seeds

brown, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 mm, reticulate.

brown, spheric to ellipsoid, 1.4-2 mm, burlike with raised ridges.
2n

= 24.

= 12.

Eschscholzia ramosa

Eschscholzia lobbii
Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May).
Habitat Open places, especially in chaparral Open fields, grasslands
Elevation 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) 0-600 m (0-2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico
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from FNA
CA
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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 lobbii grows in the Great Central Valley and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

(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. caespitosa, E. californica, E. glyptosperma, E. hypecoides, E. lemmonii, E. minutiflora, E. parishii, E. ramosa, E. rhombipetala
Synonyms E. elegans var. ramosa
Name authority (Greene) Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13: 217. (1886) Greene: Pittonia 5: 290. (1905)
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