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Papaver

LC control no.sh 85097569
LC classificationQK495.P22 Botany
Topical headingPapaver
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Variant(s)Poppies (Genus)
Stylomecon
See alsoPapaveraceae
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Poppies
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Found inWork cat.: Báez Soto, O. Cultivos ilícitos : estudio sobre la producción de marihuana y amapola en la sierra de Sinaloa, 2020: t.p. ([cataloger's translation] Illicit crops : study of the production of marijuana and poppy in the mountains of Sinaloa)
ITIS, via WWW, viewed Oct. 18, 2021 (Papaver L.; genus; synonym: Stylomecon G. Taylor; common name: poppy; family: Papaveraceae--poppies)
Britannica academic, via WWW, viewed Oct. 18, 2021: under Papaveraceae (Papaveraceae, the poppy family of flowering plants (order Ranunculales), with 44 genera and 825 species. .... Numerous members of the family are valuable ornamental plants, including about 50 species of the genus Papaver (poppy))
Merriam-Webster unabridged, via WWW, viewed OCt. 18, 2021 (Papaver, noun: a genus (the type of the family Papaveraceae) of chiefly bristly hairy herbs or occasionally subshrubs with lobed or dissected leaves, long-peduncled often nodding usually large and showy flowers, and a capsular fruit topped by a radiate disk and dehiscent by pores immediately below; poppy, noun, 1: any of numerous annual, biennial, and perennial herbs or rarely subshrubs of Papaver or sometimes of closely related genera having showy flowers usually of white or shades of red or yellow and including many that are cultivated as ornamentals of which the annuals are derived chiefly from the opium and corn poppies and the perennials from the Oriental poppy, alpine poppy, and Iceland poppy)