Papaver rhoeas |
Papaver hybridum |
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amapola, common poppy, coquelicot, corn poppy, field poppy, flanders poppy |
rough poppy, round pricklyhead poppy |
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Habit | Plants to 8 dm, hispid to setulose. | Plants to 5 dm, hispid. |
Stems | simple or usually branching. |
branching. |
Leaves | to 15 cm; distal often somewhat clustered. |
to 10 cm. |
Inflorescences | peduncle sparsely to moderately spreading-hispid throughout. |
peduncle appressed-hispid. |
Flowers | petals white, pink, orange, or red, often with dark basal spot, to 3.5 cm; anthers bluish; stigmas 5-18, disc ± flat. |
petals early caducous, red to purplish red, with dark basal spot, to 25 mm; anthers pale blue; ovaries setose; stigmas 4-8, disc convex and radially vaulted. |
Capsules | sessile or substipitate, turbinate to subglobose, obscurely ribbed, to 2 cm, less than 2 times longer than broad. |
sessile, obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, obscurely to distinctly ribbed, to 1.5 cm, densely and firmly setose, stigmatic disc often deciduous. |
Papaver rhoeas |
Papaver hybridum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Fields, pastures, stream banks, railroads, roadsides, and other disturbed sites | Fields, vineyards, and disturbed sites |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 0-700 m (0-2300 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CT; DC; IA; ID; IL; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WV; MB; NB; NS; ON; QC; SK; Europe; sw Asia; n Africa [Introduced in North America]
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CA; NC; PA; SC; Eurasia; n Africa [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | J. W. Kadereit (1990) suggested that Papaver rhoeas originated on the east coast of the Mediterranean, probably derived from one or more of the other species of the section that are native in that region, and only after (and because) "suitable habitats in sufficient extent were provided by man." Various forms with pale pink or white, unspotted, sometimes doubled petals are grown for ornament, notably the Shirley poppies. In North America, the species escapes from cultivation fairly readily and has been introduced also as a crop weed. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Papaver hybridum should be expected elsewhere in the flora. Some California collections of this crop weed have been misidentified as Papaver apulum Tenore var. micranthum (Boreau) Fedde, which is not known to occur in the flora. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Papaver > sect. Rhoeadium | Papaveraceae > Papaver |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 507. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 506. (1753) |
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