Papaver radicatum
Papaver lapponicum
arctic poppy, iceland poppy, Macoun's poppy, root poppy
Lapland poppy
to 12 cm;
petiole 2/3 length of leaf;
blade green on both surfaces, not glaucous, lanceolate, 1-2x-lobed with 2-3(-4) pairs of primary lateral lobes;
primary lobes broadly lanceolate or strap-shaped, apex obtuse to acute.
to 12 cm;
petiole 1/2-3/4 length of leaf;
blade green to gray-green on both surfaces, lanceolate, 1-2x-lobed with 2-3 pairs of primary lateral lobes;
surfaces hirsute, sometimes densely so, with long white trichomes;
primary lobes lanceolate, mostly divided, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate, frequently bristle-tipped.
scapes erect or bowed and decumbent, less than 15 cm, sparsely to densely hispid.
scapes erect, straight, generally longer than 20 cm, glabrate to hispid.
to 6.5 cm diam.;
petals yellow or white, rarely pink tinged, or brick red;
anthers yellow;
stigmas 4-7, disc convex.
to 3.5 cm diam.;
petals yellow, sometimes distally tinged with pink;
anthers yellow;
stigmas 5-7, disc convex.
obovoid to subglobose, 1-2.5 times longer than broad, strigose, trichomes light to dark brown or black.
oblong-ellipsoid, to 2 cm, 1-2.5 times longer than broad, strigose with brown trichomes.
= 42 (as P. hultenii), 56.
Papaver radicatum
Papaver lapponicum
Subspecies numerous (4 in the flora).
Many infraspecific taxa have been named from throughout the extensive range of this extremely variable species. Within North America, the following broadly circumscribed subspecies are generally, but not always, distinguishable.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
We recognize Papaver lapponicum in a much narrower sense than did G. Knaben (1959). Much further study is needed to assess the relationships of North American populations with several taxa from the Russian Far East. Plants with rose-colored petals have been distinguished as A. lapponicum var. salmonicolor (P. alboroseum of some authors, not Hultén). Such specimens from arctic Alaska appear to be the same as P. shamurinii Petrovsky from Russia. Knowledge of P. lapponicum from Greenland, where evidently it also occurs, is inadequate to permit an accurate account of its distribution there.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Scapes densely hispid with dark trichomes; capsules with dark brown trichomes. | subsp. polare |
1. Scapes hispid with light-colored trichomes (sometimes dark brown in subsp. alaskanum); capsules with light to dark brown trichomes. | → 2 |
2. Flowers 2 cm diam. or less; capsules ellipsoid-subglobose to oblong-obconic; Rocky Mountain system from Alaska and Yukon southward. | subsp. kluanense |
2. Flowers mostly greater than 2 cm diam.; capsules broadly obovoid to ellipsoid; Aleutian Islands n, e across arctic Alaska and Canada to Greenland. | → 3 |
3. Capsule trichomes generally with abruptly thickened bases; Aleutian Islands, islands of the Bering Strait and w coast of Alaska. | subsp. alaskanum |
3. Capsule trichomes generally without thickened bases; w, n Alaska e to Canada and Greenland. | subsp. radicatum |
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