Family: Papaveraceae
Papaver hybridum
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 506 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Rough poppy.
Description:
Diffuse rosette with the erect inflorescences often much branched so that the plant becomes a shrublet to 30 cm high, covered with long silky hairs more or less appressed; basal leaves with a petiole 1.5-7 cm long (usually at least half as long as the leaf), 2-13 cm long, lanceolate, usually bipinnatisect with linear lobes without teeth; cauline leaves more or less sessile, 3-7 cm long, lanceolate, regularly pinnatisect or bipinnatisect.
Pedicels covered with fine erect appressed hairs; sepals with fine erect to slightly spreading hairs; petals purplish-red to deep-pink with a black spot at the base.
Capsule broadly ellipsoid, densely covered with bristles which are at first erect and appressed, later spreading at about right angles; seeds pale-brown, with a reticulately patterned surface.
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Image source: fig 204d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 314.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. Introduced weed to all States. Widespread in Europe, also northern Africa and large parts of Asia to Mongolia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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