Smooth Pricklypoppy

Description

Argemone glauca is a poppy plant species described by Carl von Linné and Willis Thomas Pope. Argemone glauca is part of the genus of poppies, and the family of poppies. Argemone is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae commonly known as prickly poppies. There are about 32 species native to the Americas and Hawaii. The generic name originated as ἀργεμώνη in Greek and was applied by Dioscorides to a poppy-like plant used to treat cataracts.