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Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Papaver rhoeas (common names include common poppy, corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, red weed, coquelicot) is an annual herbaceous species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae. This poppy is notable as an agricultural weed (hence the common names including "corn" and "field") and after World War I as a symbol of dead soldiers.
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Infraspecies

Papaver rhoeas polytrichum
Papaver rhoeas rhoeas (Corn poppy)
Papaver rhoeas songaricum
Papaver rhoeas strigosum (strigose poppy) (Attributes)
Papaver rhoeas var. montenegrinum
Papaver rhoeas var. wilkesii

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Ultraviolet
Flower Color [2]  Red
Dispersal Mode [5]  Anemochory, Autochory
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  This plant is toxic to mammals, though the toxicity is low; The seed is not toxic;
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies, Beetles, Bats
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [3]  A red dye is obtained from the flowers; A syrup made from the petals has been used as a colouring matter for old inks; The red petals are used to add colour to pot-pourri;
Height [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [3]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Emblem of

Belgium
Poland

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[7]
Bombus terrestris (Large Earth Humble-bee)[7]
Lasioglossum zonulum[7]
Parasyrphus vittiger[9]
Rhodanthidium septemdentatum[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe cruciferarum[7]
Peronospora arborescens[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9Ecology of Commanster
♦ 10New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0