Papaver argemone |
Papaver walpolei |
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long prickly-head poppy, pale rough fruit poppy, prickly pod poppy |
walpole's poppy |
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Habit | Plants to 5 dm, hispid. | Plants densely cespitose, to 1(-2) dm. |
Stems | simple or branching. |
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Leaves | to 12[-20] cm. |
to 4 cm; petiole to 3/4 length of leaf; blade light green abaxially, dark green adaxially, sometimes glaucous, short-lanceolate, unlobed or 1x-lobed with 1(-2) pair(s) of lateral lobes, glabrous adaxially; terminal lobe rarely with small secondary lobes, apex rounded. |
Inflorescences | peduncle appressed-hispid. |
scapes erect, glabrate to hispid. |
Flowers | petals dark red, sometimes with dark basal spot, to 25 mm; anthers pale blue; stigmas 4-6, disc convex and radially vaulted. |
to 3 cm diam.; petals yellow, or white with yellow basal spot; anthers yellow; stigmas 4-5, disc convex. |
Capsules | sessile, oblong to clavate, distinctly ribbed, to 2 cm, sparsely and weakly setose. |
turbinate to ellipsoid-obovoid, to 1 cm, sparsely to densely hirsute, trichomes light brown to black. |
2n | = 14. |
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Papaver argemone |
Papaver walpolei |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering late May–Aug. |
Habitat | Fields and disturbed sites | Exposed tundra uplands, especially calcareous fellfield and river gravels |
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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AK; YT; Asia (Russian Far East, Chukotka) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Papaver > sect. Argemonidium | Papaveraceae > Papaver > sect. Meconella |
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Synonyms | P. walpolei var. sulphureomaculatum | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 506. (1753) | A. E. Porsild: Rhodora 41: 231, plate 552, figs. 4-10. (1939) |
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