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This poppy is a common plant of disturbed ground in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, which is the setting of the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John McCrae. In Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, artificial poppies (plastic in Canada, paper in the ...
Papaver rhoeas, with common names including common poppy, [3] corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, [4] Flanders poppy, red poppy, and Odai, is an annual herbaceous species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It is native to north Africa and temperate Eurasia and is introduced into temperate areas on all other continents except ...
Papaver somniferum, commonly known as the opium poppy [2] or breadseed poppy, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae.It is the species of plant from which both opium and poppy seeds are derived and is also a valuable ornamental plant grown in gardens.
In the first half of the 19th century, poppy seed oil was an important food crop, but large-scale production did not begin until Europe began to manufacture morphine in the mid-19th century. While 800–1000 tons of Indian opium are processed legally each year, [ when? ] this represents only an estimated 5% of total opium production worldwide ...
[5] The poppies are circumpolar in distribution and are found in arctic and alpine zones within Europe, North America, and Asia. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2023, arctic poppy was the northernmost flowering plant in the world, [ 8 ] with a northern range limit on Kaffeklubben Island [ 9 ] at a latitude of 83°40'N.
Oreomecon nudicaulis, synonym Papaver nudicaule, the Iceland poppy, [2] is a boreal flowering plant. Native to subpolar regions of Asia and North America, and the mountains of Central Asia as well as temperate China [ 3 ] (but not in Iceland ), Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials , often grown as biennials .
Papaver cambricum, synonym Meconopsis cambrica, the Welsh poppy, is a perennial flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It has yellow to orange flowers and is widely grown as a garden plant. It is a native of damp, rocky sites in upland areas of Western Europe from the British Isles to the Iberian Peninsula.
The Papaveraceae, / p ə ˌ p æ v ə ˈ r eɪ s i ˌ iː / [2] informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species [3] of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales.