Papaver lateritium

Papaver lateritium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Genus:	Papaver
Species:	P. lateritium
Binomial name
	Papaver lateritium; K.Koch

Papaver lateritium, the Armenian poppy, is a species of poppy endemic to Armenian Highlands, Georgia and North Eastern Turkey (Black Sea mountains).^[1]^[2]

Description

Mostly basal leaves, lanceolate, coarsely- toothed to pinnately-lobed, leaves and stems hairy; solitary flowers, bright brick red, sometimes apricot, 4.5–6 cm across, orange-yellow anthers; sepals covered in long yellowish hairs; fruit capsule club-shaped, broadest below stigmatic disk; stoloniferous perennial; up to 50 cm; stems unbranched.^[3]

References

↑ "Papaver lateritium". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 25 January 2018.
↑ http://www.alchemy-works.com/papaver_lateritium.html
↑ Grey-Wilson, Christopher. Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation.

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[grin-1] "Papaver lateritium". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 25 January 2018.

[2] ttp://www.alchemy-works.com/papaver_lateritium.html

[3] Grey-Wilson, Christopher. Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation.