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 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 (5/21/15):
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Papaver somniferum   FAMILY Papaveraceae

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