Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 1196 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Longheaded poppy.

Description:
Dense rosette with the erect inflorescence sometimes becoming somewhat branched with several flowers, covered with soft often appressed hairs, basal leaves with a petiole 1-3.5 cm long, 5-16 cm long, with the blade oblanceolate, usually bipinnatisect with linear lobes with few or no teeth; cauline leaves more or less sessile, lanceolate, 2-9 cm long, pinnatisect to bipinnatisect.

Pedicels with erect and appressed hairs at least below the flower; sepals covered with fine spreading to appressed hairs; petals brick- to salmon-red.

Capsule narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid and at least twice as long as broad; seeds brown, with a reticulately patterned surface.

	Papaver dubium
Image source: fig 204c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1948) Drawings Brit. Pl. 2:pl. 6.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Widespread in most parts of Europe but also in south-east Asia and northern Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.

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

Biology: No text

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