| Papaver walpolei Pors. | |||
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| Family | Papaveraceae — APG family: Papaveraceae | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; leaves with revolute margins, glabrous, short-petiolated, up to 4 cm long, usually smaller, entire or mostly 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, the median sometimes shallowly 2-3-lobed; persistent petioles dark brown; scape sparsely pubescent above; flowers 1.5-4 cm in diameter, yellow or white with yellow basal spot (var. sulphureo-maculata Hult.); capsule conical when young, in age obovate- conical, sparsely yellowish-hirsute; stigma pyramidal, mostly with 5 rays. | ||
| Ecology | Solifluction soil. |
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.