Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Papaver dubium
FAMILY
Papaveraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Long-headed Poppy from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Papaver dubium
FAMILY
Papaveraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Papaver dubium
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Papaver dubium
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 085-05-004:
Papaver dubium FAMILY Papaveraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Papaver dubium
COMMON NAME:
Long-headed Poppy, Blind Eyes
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_padu_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_papaver_dubium_0004
May Iredell County NC
Flower: petals orange to red, rarely with dark basal spot; anthers violet, per Flora of North America.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_papaver_dubium_0005
May Iredell County NC
Capsule sessile or substipitate, narrowly obovoid, usually distinctly ribbed, per Flora of North America.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_papaver_dubium_0013
May Iredell County NC
The stigma is a 5-9 rayed, radially lobed disk on the summit of the ovary, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Papaver dubium
FAMILY
Papaveraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Papaver dubium
FAMILY
Papaveraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Papaver dubium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Papaver dubium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 085-05-004:
Papaver dubium
FAMILY
Papaveraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Papaver dubium
2850
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Uncommon in NC Mountains & NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has white to yellowish latex (milky sap)
LEAVES:
Simple: Pinnately parted or divided
Basal rosette & alternate
Basal & lower stem leaves have petioles; upper stem leaves are sessile.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Light red
Peduncles long
Radially symmetrical, or nearly so
2-merous
2-3 sepals
4 petals
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers solitary, terminal
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p445
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p090
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p046
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p069
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p052
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