Eschscholzia ramosa |
Eschscholzia rhombipetala |
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Channel Island poppy, Channel Islands poppy, island-poppy |
diamond-petal California poppy |
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Habit | Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. | Plants annual, caulescent, erect, 5-30 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; blade glabrous; ultimate lobes elongate, obtuse. |
basal and cauline; blade glabrous; ultimate lobes generally obtuse. |
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 or nodding. |
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 turbinate to obconic, distally translucent and somewhat swollen, more than 2 mm broad, cup without spreading free rim; calyx acute or acuminate, glabrous, sometimes glaucous; petals yellow, 3-15 mm. |
Capsules | 4-7 cm. |
4-7 cm. |
Seeds | brown, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 mm, reticulate. |
black, spheric, 1.3-1.8 mm, reticulate. |
2n | = 24. |
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Eschscholzia ramosa |
Eschscholzia rhombipetala |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Open places, especially in chaparral | Fallow fields, open places |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-500 m (0-1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico
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CA |
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.) |
Of conservation concern. Originally known from seven sites in California, Eschscholzia rhombipetala had not been seen since the early 1970s before it was rediscovered in 1993 on the Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo County. (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: 71. (1885) |
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