Calflora: Eschscholzia californica

Eschscholzia californica Cham.

California poppy

Eschscholzia californica, a dicot, is an annual or perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities)
Elevation:	between 0 and 6561 feet
Family:	PAPAVERACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Eschscholzia found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana

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Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 92 / 41 CCH Alpine: 3 / 2 CCH Amador: 17 / 16 CCH Butte: 33 / 31 CCH Calaveras: 5 / 5 CCH Contra Costa: 82 / 27 CCH Colusa: 11 / 8 CCH Del Norte: 14 / 13 CCH El Dorado: 18 / 10 CCH Fresno: 28 / 22 CCH Glenn: 5 / 5 CCH Humboldt: 45 / 42 CCH Inyo: 3 / 3 CCH Kings: 7 / 7 CCH Kern: 122 / 102 CCH Lake: 33 / 28 CCH Lassen: 12 / 11 CCH Los Angeles: 289 / 193 CCH Madera: 9 / 6 CCH Mendocino: 55 / 31 CCH Merced: 16 / 13 CCH Mono: 4 / 2 CCH Monterey: 156 / 94 CCH Modoc: 11 / 11 CCH Mariposa: 10 / 9 CCH Marin: 96 / 16 CCH Napa: 33 / 18 CCH Nevada: 8 / 3 CCH Orange: 38 / 23 CCH Placer: 7 / 4 CCH Plumas: 18 / 16 CCH Riverside: 123 / 105 CCH Sacramento: 27 / 12 CCH Santa Barbara: 227 / 202 CCH San Bernardino: 94 / 90 CCH San Benito: 29 / 18 CCH Santa Clara: 43 / 22 CCH Santa Cruz: 34 / 23 CCH San Diego: 363 / 329 CCH San Francisco: 201 / 42 CCH Shasta: 17 / 10 CCH Sierra: 2 / 1 CCH Siskiyou: 23 / 21 CCH San Joaquin: 11 / 11 CCH San Luis Obispo: 119 / 93 CCH San Mateo: 60 / 14 CCH Solano: 31 / 19 CCH Sonoma: 93 / 23 CCH Stanislaus: 16 / 14 CCH Sutter: 5 / 3 CCH Tehama: 6 / 5 CCH Trinity: 18 / 14 CCH Tulare: 15 / 8 CCH Tuolumne: 7 / 4 CCH Ventura: 56 / 45 CCH Yolo: 17 / 15 CCH Yuba: 3 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Eschscholzia californica from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (ESCA2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database