Papaver L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Papaveraceae

• Scientific Name

  Papaver L.

• Description

  Genus Description - Sep 2; pet normally 4, white or colored, our spp. never yellow; ovary of 4–many carpels, the placentas deeply intruded as partial partitions; stigmas as many as the carpels, sessile and radiating on a disk terminating the ovary; fr opening by small valves just below the margin of the stigmatic disk; seeds not arillate; herbs with milky or colored juice and large, usually long-peduncled fls terminating the stem and branches. 100, cosmop.

• Discussion

  Three cult. spp. that occasionally escape in our range are included in the key but not described

• Common Names

  poppy