Argemone mexicana L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Papaveraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stem 3-6 dm. high, spiny or sometimes nearly unarmed. Leaves sessile, clasping by a narrowed base, 1-2.5 dm. long, glaucous, runcinate-pinnatind, spiny-toothed and more or less spiny on the veins; flowers orange or yellow, sessile or subsessile, 2-8 cm. broad; sepals acuminate, bristly-pointed; capsule 2.5 cm. long or more; stigma sessile.
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Distribution
A weed of waste places near dwellings, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama south to Grand Turk. Salt Cay, Inagua : Bermuda: southern United States; West Indies; continental tropical America; Old World tropics. Donkey Thistle. Mexican Foppy.
Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|