Papaver lateritium, the Armenian poppy, is a species of poppy endemic to Armenian Highlands, Georgia and North Eastern Turkey (Black Sea mountains).[1][2]
| Papaver lateritium | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Papaveraceae |
| Genus: | Papaver |
| Species: | P. lateritium
|
| Binomial name | |
| Papaver lateritium | |
Description
editMostly basal leaves, lanceolate, coarsely- toothed to pinnately-lobed, leaves and stems hairy; solitary flowers, bright brick red, sometimes apricot, 4.5–6 cm across, orange-yellow anthers; sepals covered in long yellowish hairs; fruit capsule club-shaped, broadest below stigmatic disk; stoloniferous perennial; up to 50 cm; stems unbranched.[3]
References
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Papaver lateritium.
- ^ "Papaver lateritium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Armenian Poppy Seeds from Alchemy Works - Seeds for Magick Herbs and Pagan Gardens".
- ^ Grey-Wilson, Christopher (2000). Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation. Timber Press. ISBN 9780881925036.