Papaver rhoeas
Papaver lapponicum
amapola, common poppy, coquelicot, corn poppy, field poppy, flanders poppy
Lapland poppy
simple or usually branching.
to 15 cm;
distal often somewhat clustered.
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.
peduncle sparsely to moderately spreading-hispid throughout.
scapes erect, straight, generally longer than 20 cm, glabrate to hispid.
petals white, pink, orange, or red, often with dark basal spot, to 3.5 cm;
anthers bluish;
stigmas 5-18, disc ± flat.
to 3.5 cm diam.;
petals yellow, sometimes distally tinged with pink;
anthers yellow;
stigmas 5-7, disc convex.
sessile or substipitate, turbinate to subglobose, obscurely ribbed, to 2 cm, less than 2 times longer than broad.
oblong-ellipsoid, to 2 cm, 1-2.5 times longer than broad, strigose with brown trichomes.
= 42 (as P. hultenii), 56.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver lapponicum
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.)
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.)
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