Papaver argemone |
Papaver californicum |
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long prickly-head poppy, pale rough fruit poppy, prickly pod poppy |
fire poppy, western poppy |
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Habit | Plants to 5 dm, hispid. | Plants to 6.5 dm, glabrate or sparsely pilose. |
Stems | simple or branching. |
simple or branching. |
Leaves | to 12[-20] cm. |
to 15 cm. |
Inflorescences | peduncle appressed-hispid. |
peduncle glabrous or sparsely pilose. |
Flowers | petals dark red, sometimes with dark basal spot, to 25 mm; anthers pale blue; stigmas 4-6, disc convex and radially vaulted. |
petals light orange or orange-red, with pink-edged, greenish basal spot, to 2.5 cm; anthers yellow; stigmas 4-8(-11), disc conic, usually umbonate. |
Capsules | sessile, oblong to clavate, distinctly ribbed, to 2 cm, sparsely and weakly setose. |
sessile, ellipsoid to obovoid-turbinate, distinctly ribbed, to 1.8 cm. |
2n | = 28. |
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Papaver argemone |
Papaver californicum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Fields and disturbed sites | Chaparral and oak woodlands, especially in grassy areas, clearings, burns and other disturbed sites |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-900 m (0-3000 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; OR; PA; UT; Europe; sw Asia [Introduced in North America]
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CA
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Discussion | In its native range, Papaver argemone is a complex of five diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid subspecies (J. W. Kadereit 1986, 1990). Apparently two or more of these have been represented among the crop weeds and ballast waifs introduced in North America, where plants are difficult to assign to particular subspecies. The species should be expected elsewhere in the flora. Collections attributed to Maryland, Ohio, and Virginia are known also, but they lack more specific citations of locality. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Papaver californicum grows in central western and southwestern California in the Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges. This is the only caulescent poppy, and the only annual one, native to the flora. In the past it has been included in Papaver sect. Rhoeadium, together with the other annuals that have glabrous capsules and distal leaves not clasping, which are native to Eurasia. Recently, based on differences in filament color, stigmatic disc shape, and capsule dehiscence, J. W. Kadereit (1988b) assigned P. californicum to a new monotypic section and suggested that it originated from the same stock as the perennial, scapose, arctic-alpine poppies (Papaver sect. Meconella). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Papaver > sect. Argemonidium | Papaveraceae > Papaver > sect. Californicum |
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Synonyms | P. lemmonii | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 506. (1753) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 313. (1887) |
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