Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Papaver hybridum
Common name
Rough Poppy
Family
Papaveraceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, waste areas, and disturbed sites. Mainly Sydney area and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m high. Flower stalk to bristly. Leaves basal and alternating up the stem, to 15 cm long, hairy to rough-hairy, margins deeply dissected, toothed. Flowers with 4 petals, orange to crimson or purplish red, usually with a dark purplish blotch at the base, each 10–25 mm long, readily shed. Flowering Sep.–Jan.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Papaver~hybridum (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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