Scientific name: Papaver dubium L.
Common name: Long-headed Poppy
Description
Habit: A slightly hairy perennial, to 60 cm high.
Stems: Erect with white or yellow latex; flower stalks with coarse, non-spreading hairs.
Leaves: Alternate, stalkless, pinnate with pinnately lobed leaflets.
Flowers: Pale pink to red, actinomorphic, 3-6 cm across, solitary; sepals 2, falling when the flower opens; petals 4, free, large, crumpled and papery first, falling early, outer pair larger than inner; stamens numerous; ovary superior.
Fruits: A capsule, with numerous seeds, hairless, narrowly club-shaped, about 2 cm long.
Habitat: Roadsides, cultivated fields, waste ground.
Distribution: Occasional on limestone, very rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No
Subspecies:
Papaver dubium subsp. dubium
P. dubium subsp. lecoquii (Lamotte) Syme
Subsp. dubium has white or cream latex and yellow anthers. Subsp. lecoquii has yellow latex and brown to bluish-black anthers. |
