San Benito Poppy

(Eschscholzia hypecoides)

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Description

Eschscholzia hypecoides is an annual herb with leaves made up of rounded segments and producing fuzzy stems up to 30 centimeters tall.Atop the thin, erect stems are bright yellow to orange poppy flowers. Each flower has petals one or two centimeters long and sometimes spotted with a darker shade of yellow or orange. The fruit is a capsule 3 to 7 centimeters long containing tiny netted brown seeds.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Ranunculales
Family:Papaveraceae
Genus:Eschscholzia
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