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Meconella

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Meconella is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family. They are known generally as fairypoppies. ==Species== There are about 3 species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name!! Distribution |- | ||Meconella californica – California fairypoppy||around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills |- |120px ||Meconella denticulata – smallflower fairypoppy|| from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges |- | ||Meconella oregana – white fairypoppy|| Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. |- |}

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRanunculales
  5. FamilyPapaveraceae
Native toBritish Columbia, California, Mexico Northwest, Oregon, Washington

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
20
With media
20
Family
Papaveraceae
Collections
COLO, BRIT, US
Recorded in
United States, Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
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Meconelladenticulata.jpg
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taxon name
Meconella
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Meconella
taxon common name
fairypoppy
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Meconella is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family. They are known generally as fairypoppies. ==Species== There are about 3 species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name!! Distribution |- | ||Meconella californica – California fairypoppy||around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills |- |120px ||Meconella denticulata – smallflower fairypoppy|| from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges |- | ||Meconella oregana – white fairypoppy|| Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. |- |}

A fourth species, Meconella linearis, is sometimes treated as Platystigma linearis or Hesperomecon linearis.

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