Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. abr. edn 4 (1754).

Derivation: Greco-Latin word alluding to the glaucous bloom on the plants.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Horned-poppies.

Description:
Annuals, biennials or perennials with yellow sap; leaves petiolate in the basal rosette, sessile above, irregularly pinnatifid to bipinnatifid, glabrous.

Sepals 2, free, caducous; petals 4; stamens numerous; stigma discoid, bilobed, sessile, persistent in fruit.

Capsule narrowly cylindrical to slightly tapering to both ends; dehiscing by 2 valves along the whole length, with seeds partly embedded in the spongy placenta.

Distribution:  About 20 species native to the Mediterranean region and south-western Asia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Fruits with erect appressed hairs; cauline leaves deeply divided, with lobes longer than the width of the entire part of the leaf blade	G. corniculatum 1.
1. Fruits with scattered decurrent papillae particularly towards the apex; cauline leaves toothed or if lobed then lobes shorter than the width of the entire part of the leaf blade	G. flavum 2.

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