Mexican prickly poppy

Description

Argemone ochroleuca is a species of prickly poppy, a flowering plant commonly known as pale Mexican prickly poppy or Mexican poppy. It is native to Mexico and is also an introduced weed in many temperate and tropical regions of the world. It can grow up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in height and has a sticky yellow sap. It can be found as an introduced species in Western Australia, New Zealand, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, the Indian subcontinent, South Africa, and Arizona in the southwestern United States. 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.