Eschscholzia rhombipetala

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Eschscholzia rhombipetala

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Eschscholzia
Species: E. rhombipetala
Binomial name
Eschscholzia rhombipetala
Greene

Eschscholzia rhombipetala is a relative of the California poppy with diminutive flowers. Once thought extinct, it was rediscovered in the northern Carrizo Plain of the interior south Coast Ranges of California, and in a location at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.