Citation: Cham. in Nets, Hor. Phys. Ber. 73, pl. 15 (1820).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Californian poppy.

Description:
Herb to 30 cm high, with a tough slightly woody base, usually much branched, glabrous; leaves with a petiole to 12 cm long but much shorter below the flowers, 3-15 cm long, with an ovate blade deeply bipinnatisect with the terminal lobes often 3-fid, with narrow-linear lobes.

Pedicel 3-15 cm long; sepals fused to form a calyptra which is seated on an expanding rim from the receptacle; petals yellow rarely orange, often somewhat darker towards the base.

Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, 5-8 cm long, with a persistent style; seeds globose, reticulately patterned.

	Eschscholzia californica
Image source: fig 203b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Beadle (1972) Student's flora of north-eastern New South Wales 2:135, fig. 57C; Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 166.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL.   Qld; N.S.W.; ?Vic.   native in California. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: July — March.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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