Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Opium Poppy from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

When unripe capsules of the opium poppy are cut, they exude a milky latex that turns brown and rubbery when dried. This is opium. Read more at "Magical, Mystical and Medicinal".

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Papaver somniferum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Papaver somniferum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 085-05-001:

Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Papaver somniferum

COMMON NAME:
Opium Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_paso2_001_lvd

        

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_papaver_somniferum1

November    Juan Fernandez Is.    Chile

Plants glabrate, glaucous. Leaf margins usually shallowly to deeply toothed, per Flora of North America.

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_papaver_somniferum2

November    Juan Fernandez Is.    Chile

Unknown in the wild, cultivated for centuries as the source of opium, per Flora of North America.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Papaver somniferum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Papaver somniferum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 085-05-001:
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Papaver somniferum