Common Name

Click to Exit to Comparison Page

or
Click on Browser Back Arrow to Return to Site Map or Index Page

or link to

Ivydenegardens.co.uk Home
Wildflower Site Map

Corn Poppy (Syn. Field Poppy) from Poppy Family

Botanical Name

Papaver rhoeas

Soil

Arable fields, roadsides and waste places in England but scarce in the North.

Sun Aspect

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Dry

Plant Type

Annual or rarely biennial herb with a slender tap-root and erect or ascending usually branched stems, with stiff spreading hairs or glabrous.

Height x Spread in feet

1-2 x 1

Foliage

Light Green basal leaves, divided with narrow acute toothed bristle-pointed segments. Upper leaves usually 3-lobed, cut or toothed. All leaves stiffly hairy.

Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit

Scarlet, rarely pink or white in June-August followed by dark brown seeds in a large capsule.

Comment

Visited by various pollen-collecting insects, especially bees. No nectar. Probably self-sterile.

The commonest poppy in the South is a native weed.

Available as seed from John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds and plant from British Wild Flower Plants . Coblands Nurseries Ltd sells other varieties of cultivated poppies.