Papaver rhoeas
Papaver alboroseum
amapola, common poppy, coquelicot, corn poppy, field poppy, flanders poppy
pale poppy
simple or usually branching.
to 15 cm;
distal often somewhat clustered.
to 4 cm;
petiole 1/2 length of leaf or less;
blade gray-green on both surfaces, broadly lanceolate, 1-2x-lobed with 1 or 2 pairs of primary lateral lobes, white- to brown-setose;
primary lobes obovate to strap-shaped, margins sometimes toothed, apex obtuse-rounded to acute, bristle-tipped.
peduncle sparsely to moderately spreading-hispid throughout.
scapes often decumbent, bowed, spreading-hispid.
petals white, pink, orange, or red, often with dark basal spot, to 3.5 cm;
anthers bluish;
stigmas 5-18, disc ± flat.
to 2.5 cm diam.;
petals white to rose with yellow basal spot;
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.
subglobose to ellipsoid, to 1.3 cm, 1-2 times longer than broad, strigose, trichomes light (ivory).
= 28.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver alboroseum
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 alboroseum is infrequent at scattered localities on high mountains within the area mapped. It is locally and unusually abundant in gravels below the terminus of the Portage Glacier, near Anchorage, Alaska. Reports of its presence in arctic Alaska are based on misidentifications of P. lapponicum.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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