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These bright-red flowers grow wild throughout Europe, brightening the fields and roadsides. It's a medium to tall, erect or spreading plant with very bristly stems, and hairy sepals. The seed capluses are rounded and hairless, with a flattened top.
Flowers.
Mar-June.
Size.
25-90 cm (short-tall)
Flower Blossom.
4 petals; 45 mm. Up to 45 mm across, with 4 overlapping petals, the 2 broadest ones behind.
Leaves.
Deeply lobed, 15 cm or more long.
Habitat.
Roadsides, grain fields, olive groves and cultivated ground.
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Opium Poppy
30-100 cm. The petals are purple or white, forming a broad bowl up to 90 mm across. The leaves are oval to oblong with wavy margins, not divided. |
| Rough Poppy |
Papaver hybridum
10-50 cm. Similar to the Common Poppy. The 4 petals are separate (not overlapped). The leaves are only 10 cm long and finely divided into feathery segments. The seed capsuls are rounded and bristly. |
| Papaver dubium |
Long-Headed Poppy
20-60 cm. Very similar to the Common Poppy. The petals are up to 60 mm across, more evenly overlapped. The leaves are up to 20 cm long, with short separate segments. The hairless seed capsule is long and narrow. |
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