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poppy

DEFINITIONS OF: poppy

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n annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers

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Iceland poppy, Papaver alpinum
Old World alpine poppy with white or yellow to orange flowers
Papaver californicum, western poppy
showy annual of California with red flowers
Papaver argemone, prickly poppy
annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule, arctic poppy
subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers
Papaver orientale, oriental poppy
commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers
Flanders poppy, Papaver rhoeas, corn poppy, field poppy
annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated
Papaver somniferum, opium poppy
southwestern Asian herb with greyish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium
Chelidonium majus, celandine, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort
perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
California poppy, Eschscholtzia californica
of Pacific coast of North America; widely cultivated for its yellow to red flowers
Hunnemania fumariifolia, Mexican tulip poppy, golden cup
native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
Macleaya cordata, bocconia, plume poppy
herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers
Meconopsis betonicifolia, blue poppy
Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes
Meconopsis cambrica, Welsh poppy
widely cultivated west European plant with showy pale yellow flowers
Platystemon californicus, creamcups
California plant with small pale yellow flowers
Papaver heterophyllum, Stylomecon heterophyllum, flaming poppy, wind poppy
California wild poppy with bright red flowers
Stylophorum diphyllum, celandine poppy, wood poppy
perennial herb native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers
Type of:
flower
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
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