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Argemone mexicana (Mexican pricklypoppy; Mexican prickly poppy; yellow pricklypoppy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Argemone mexicana (Mexican poppy, Mexican prickly poppy, flowering thistle, cardo or cardosanto) is a species of poppy found in Mexico and now widely naturalized in many parts of the world. An extremely hardy pioneer plant, it is tolerant of drought and poor soil, often being the only cover on new road cuttings or verges. It has bright yellow latex, and though poisonous to grazing animals, is rarely eaten, but has been used medicinally by many people including those in its native area, the Natives of the western US and parts of Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Argemone mexicana var. aculeatissima
Argemone mexicana var. alba
Argemone mexicana var. glauca
Argemone mexicana var. inermis
Argemone mexicana var. ochroleuca
Argemone mexicana var. spinosa
Argemone mexicana var. tomentosa

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  All parts of the plant, including the seed, contain toxic alkaloids;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  A semi-drying oil is obtained from the seed, used for lighting, soap etc; A medicinal fixed oil (essential oil?) is obtained from the seed;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  18 inches (0.45 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa

Predators

Columbina passerina (Common Ground-Dove)[4]
Platynota labiosana[5]
Zenaida aurita (Zenaida Dove)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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