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.