Glaucium flavum

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Yellow hornpoppy

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Glaucium
Species: G. flavum
Binomial name
Glaucium flavum
Crantz

Glaucium flavum (Yellow hornpoppy) is an ornamental plant in the Papaveraceae family, which is native to Western Europe. As with all poppies the seeds are edible. [1] It is a noxious weed in some areas of North America, where it is an introduced species.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mears, R. and Hillman, G. C. (2007) Wild food. London, Hodder & Stoughton.

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