Papaver argemone
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Papaver argemone is a species of the genus Papaver
. Its common names include long pricklyhead poppy and pale poppy. Its native range includes parts of Eurasia and North Africa, and it is cultivated as an ornamental plant
. It can be found growing wild in parts of North America where it is an introduced species
.
This annual herb grows up to half a meter tall, its stem coated in stiff prickly hairs. The poppy flower has usually four pale red petals with dark bases, each measuring about 2 centimeters long.
Papaver
Papaver is a genus of 70-100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae.-Description:...
. Its common names include long pricklyhead poppy and pale poppy. Its native range includes parts of Eurasia and North Africa, and it is cultivated as an ornamental plant
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...
. It can be found growing wild in parts of North America where it is an introduced species
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
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This annual herb grows up to half a meter tall, its stem coated in stiff prickly hairs. The poppy flower has usually four pale red petals with dark bases, each measuring about 2 centimeters long.