Papaver rhoeas
Papaver dubium
amapola, common poppy, coquelicot, corn poppy, field poppy, flanders poppy
blind eyes, long-head poppy, long-pod poppy
simple or usually branching.
simple or branching.
to 15 cm;
distal often somewhat clustered.
to 20 cm.
peduncle sparsely to moderately spreading-hispid throughout.
peduncle proximally spreading-hispid, distally appressed-hispid.
petals white, pink, orange, or red, often with dark basal spot, to 3.5 cm;
anthers bluish;
stigmas 5-18, disc ± flat.
petals orange to red, rarely with dark basal spot, to 3 cm;
anthers violet;
stigmas 7-9, disc ± flat.
sessile or substipitate, turbinate to subglobose, obscurely ribbed, to 2 cm, less than 2 times longer than broad.
sessile or substipitate, narrowly obovoid, usually distinctly ribbed, to 2 cm, 2 times or more longer than broad.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver dubium
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.)
In its native range, Papaver dubium is a tetraploid complex of five subspecies whose morphologies and distributions intersect to a considerable degree (J. W. Kadereit 1989, 1990). Probably several, if not all, of these entities have been introduced in North America, but it is fruitless to try to distinguish them here, where the species has arrived as a crop weed and the subspecies have no geographic integrity.
Papaver dubium sometimes seems to intergrade with P. rhoeas, at least in North America. The most readily evident character for distinguishing them reliably is the nature of the distal pubescence on the peduncles–whether spreading or appressed.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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