Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Papaver hybridum
Rough Poppy
Papaveraceae
Woodland, grassy areas, waste areas, and disturbed sites. Mainly Sydney area and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
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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