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Bayer Code : papar

Scientific name: Papaver argemone L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Papaveraceae

Common name: prickly poppy

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Sand-Mohn ; ES : amapola macho ; FR : pavot argémone ; IT : papavero selvatico ; PT : papoila-longa-peluda ; EN : prickly poppy ; NL : ruige klaproos, stekelpapaver ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).

- First leaves linear to rounded, then pinnate.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant pubescent.

- Stem simple or branched, erect or ascending.

- Leaves lower in rosette. Once or twice pinnately divided, with few lanceolate and usually silky segments. Cauline leaves sessile. Whitish latex.

- Flowers red-scarlet, relatively small. Petals sometimes black-blotched at base.

- Fruit : long-clavate capsule, 4-6 rays on the topped disk of the fruit. Capsule obscurely ribbed, silky-hairy on the upper part.

- Whole plant poisonous - especially the fruit.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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