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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRanunculales
- FamilyPapaveraceae
Native toIran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye
Observations recorded5,567
General: of Papaver orientale , which were subsequently grown in Paris
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 313
- With media
- 227
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Collections
- UTEP, QUE, USU, DBG, DEK, CDA
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
Papaver orientale, the Oriental poppy, is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.
Oriental poppies grow a mound of leaves that are hairy and finely dissected in spring. They gather energy and bloom in mid-summer. After flowering, the foliage dies away entirely, a property that allows their survival in the summer drought of Central Asia. Gardeners can place late-developing plants nearby to fill the developing gap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Papaver orientale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.