Papaver somniferum L.

Papaver somniferum L.

PAPAVERACEAE

- Poppy family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Papaver somniferum L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 508 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Opium poppy

English name: oilseed poppy

English name: opium poppy

Spanish name: amapola real

French name: pavot somnifère

Italian name: Papavero da oppio

German name: Schlafmohn

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:
= Papaver somniferum L. var. setigerum auct. non (DC.) Corb.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Papaver somniferum L. var. setigerum auct. non (DC.) Corb.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Magnoliidae
Order: Papaverales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Papaver
Species:

Page counter: 3694 ( AVG: 221.05 / 219.747 )

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Papaver somniferum
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Papaver somniferum

Papaver somniferum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Forni di Sopra, Giardino Botanico., UD, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Papaver somniferum
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Papaver somniferum
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Papaver somniferum
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Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Papaver somniferum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Aquilinia, area prativa sulla sommità del Montedoro., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Papaver somniferum
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Papaver somniferum
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Papaver somniferum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 137.

Papaver somniferum
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Renzo Salvo

Papaver somniferum
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IL, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Papaver somniferum L.
Map for Papaver somniferum L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Papaver somniferum L. var. setigerum auct. non (DC.) Corb. [175]
2) Papaver walpolei A.E. Porsild [251]
3) Papaver x strigosum (Boenn.) Schur (pro sp.) [262]
4) Pappophorum bicolor Fourn. [256]
5) Pappophorum pappiferum (Lam.) Kuntze [361]
6) Parapholis filiformis (Roth) C.E. Hubbard [252]
7) Paraserianthes lophantha (Willd.) I.C. Nielsen [1325]
8) Parietaria diffusa Mert. & W.D.J. Koch [406]
9) Parietaria occidentalis Rydb. [167]
10) Parkia speciosa Hassk. [306]

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