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Papaver heterophyllum

Flaming-poppy · Wind-poppy · Windpoppy

Family PapaveraceaeGenus Papaver

Also published as Stylomecon heterophylla. You are in the right place.

An orange poppy of four crinkled petals around a ring of yellow stamens on dark red filaments, with a green knob at the center.
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About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
annualPlants of the World Online
Habit
Annual, Forb/herbPLANTS Database
Flower
Bright orangeWikipedia
Native range
Native to the lower 48 statesPLANTS Database

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors.

Worth knowing

  • The wind poppy, long known as Stylomecon heterophylla, grows only in western California and northwestern Baja California. It is especially abundant after a fire. Wikipedia: Papaver heterophyllum

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 21 days to germinate.

40% germination in 7–21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1996 · 1st Supplement, Stylomecon p. 80Public domain
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Stylomecon (Papaveraceae). S. heterophylla germ. 70D(40-50% in 1 -3 w). Light or GA-3 had little effect.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement, 1st Supplement, Stylomecon p. 80. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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