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Scientific Name: | Papaver orientale |
Common Name: | Oriental poppy |
Family Name: | Papaveraceae |
Origin: | Central / west Asia |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Upright |
Form: | Columnar |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Summer interest |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Dissected, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Glandular hairs, Lanceolate, Cleft (parted), Pinnately lobed, Serrate |
Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Pink, Red, May-Jun |
Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
Key ID Features: | |
Tufted plants 60-100cm tall, leaves thistle-like, pinnately dissected, toothed, hairy, grayish-green, 20-30(-35)cm long, margin sparsey serrate with bristle-tips, or incised, stem leaves alternate, and smaller, upper leaves sessile, all turning yellow soon after flowering; flowers solitary and terminal, bowl-shaped, 10-16cm wide, 4(-6) large wavy petals, pink, red to orange, or white, most cvs. have with a dark petal cente, obovate, (3-)5-8cm long, stamens numberous and dark, Jun-Jul; fruit an attractive brown capsule rounded, most 2-3cm wide with pores under a cap, pubescent and green maturing glabrous and glaucous. |