Papaver rhoeas
(common poppy)

Pictures

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Title Seedlings Caption Seedlings of P. rhoeas. Copyright ©AgrEvo	Seedlings	Seedlings of P. rhoeas.	©AgrEvo
Title Flowering plants Caption Mature flowering plants in wheat. Copyright ©AgrEvo	Flowering plants	Mature flowering plants in wheat.	©AgrEvo

Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

• Papaver rhoeas L. (1753)

Preferred Common Name

• common poppy

Other Scientific Names

• Papaver commutatum Fisch. & C. A. May
• Papaver insignitum Jord.
• Papaver intermedium Beck
• Papaver ramosissimum Fedde 1905
• Papaver roubiaei Vig.
• Papaver strigosum (Boenn.) Schur 1877
• Papaver tenuissimum Fedde
• Papaver trilobum Wallr.
• Papaver tumidulum Klokov 1953

International Common Names

• English: corn poppy; field poppy; Flanders poppy; Shirley poppy
• Spanish: amapola
• French: coquelicot; pavot coquelicot
• Chinese: li chun hua
• Portuguese: papoila-das-searas; papoula ordinaria

Local Common Names

• Argentina: amapola silvestre
• Belgium: klaproes; kollebloem
• Chile: amapola roja
• Denmark: korn valmue
• Egypt: deydahaan; zaghleel
• Finland: silkkiunikko
• Germany: Feldmohn; Feuermohn; Klapperrose; Klatsch-mohn; Klatschrose; Wider Monhn
• Italy: papavero salvatico; rosolaccio
• Lebanon: shaka'ik-un-naman
• Netherlands: klaproos
• Norway: kornvalmue
• Sweden: kornvallmo
• Turkey: gelincik
• Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro): bulka

EPPO code

• PAPRH (Papaver rhoeas)

Taxonomic Tree

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Papaverales
•                         Family: Papaveraceae
•                             Genus: Papaver
•                                 Species: Papaver rhoeas

Distribution Table

The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Habitat List

Natural enemies

References

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Distribution References

Basit A A, Ghani M A, 1978. Diseases of Cannabis sativa L. and Papaver somniferum L. in Pakistan (for the USA). In: Trinidad, Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control: Report of work carried out during 1976. 64-65.

Bishop A C, Pemberton B M, 1996. Germination and emergence characteristics of wild poppies (Papaver spp.) as weeds of oil poppy (Papaver somniferum) in Tasmania, Australia. In: Proceedings of the second international weed control congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-28 June 1996: Volumes 1-4. [Proceedings of the second international weed control congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-28 June 1996: Volumes 1-4.], [ed. by Brown H, Cussans G W, Devine M D, Duke S O, Fernandez-Quintanilla C, Helweg A, Labrada R E, Landes M, Kudsk P, Streibig J C]. Slagelse, Denmark: Department of Weed Control and Pesticide Ecology. 73-78.

CABI, Undated. Compendium record. Wallingford, UK: CABI

Fenni M, 1993. Survey of the flora of cornfields in the high cereal plains of Setif (North-East Algeria). (Inventaire et étude de la flore messicole des hautes plaines cerealières setifiennes (nord-est Algerie).). In: Mededelingen van de Faculteit Landbouwwetenschappen, Universiteit Gent, 58 (3A) 1003-1011.

Holm L G, Pancho J V, Herberger J P, Plucknett D L, 1991. A geographic atlas of world weeds. Malabar, Florida, USA: Krieger Publishing Co. 391 pp.

Jäggli B, 1992. Seed production of six ruderal weeds on different sites. (Samenproduktion sechs ausgewählter Unkrautarten auf verschiedenen Ackerstandorten.). Berichte des Geobotanischen Institutes der Eidgenossischen Technischen Hochschule, Stiftung Rubel. 86-100.

Lazarides M, Cowley K, Hohnen P, 1997. CSIRO handbook of Australian weeds. Collingwood, Vic. Australia: CSIRO Publishing. vii + 264 pp.

Russ K, 1985. Official report from the Federal Institute for Plant Protection. (Amtliche Mitteilung der Bundesanstalt für Pflanzenschutz.). Pflanzenschutz. 3.

Solomakha V A, 1986. Agrotypology of segetal plants of the right-bank forest steppe. Ukraïns'kiĭ Botani¯chniĭ Zhurnal. 43 (6), 47-52.

Valladares G, 1981. Contribution to knowledge of the species of Calycomyza Hendel (Diptera, Agromyzidae), leaf-miners in the Argentine Republic. (Contribucion al conocimiento de las especies de Calycomyza Hendel (Diptera, Agromyzidae), minadores de hojas en la Republica Argentina.). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina. 40 (1/4), 221-229.

Wells M J, Balsinhas A A, Joffe H, Engelbrecht V M, Harding G, Stirton C H, 1986. A catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa incorporating the national weed list of South Africa. Memoirs, Botanical Survey of South Africa. v + 658pp.

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