| Papaver rhoeas L. | |||
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| Family | Papaveraceae — APG family: Papaveraceae | ||
| Common name | corn poppy | ||
| Description | Stem erect or ascending, usually branched, from slender taproot, with stiff, spread- ing hairs; basal leaves petiolated, once to twice pinnately cut or divided into more or less toothed segments; upper leaves sessile, 3-lobed, central lobe elongate, lanceo- late; flowers large, petals scarlet; capsule glabrous, subglobose to obovate; stigma mostly with 10 lobes. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.