Walpole'S Poppy

Description

Papaver walpolei is a poppy plant species which was described by Alf Erling Porsild . Papaver walpolei included in the genus poppies , and the family poppy plants. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life . Papaver is a genus of 70–100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae.The flowers have two sepals that fall off as the bud opens, and four (or up to six) petals in red, pink, orange, yellow, or lilac. There are many stamens in several whorls around a compound pistil, which results from the fusion of carpels. The stigmas are visible on top of the capsule, and the number of stigmas corresponds to the number of fused carpels.