Eschscholzia californica
Cham.
California poppy
Eschscholzia californica is an annual or perennial herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America.
Bloom Period
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Jepson eFlora section:
eudicot
USDA PLANTS group:
Dicot
Do not eat any part of this plant.
Northern Coastal Scrub, Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Coastal Prairie, Valley Grassland
[Wikipedia] Taxonomy: Eschscholzia californica was the first named species of the genus Eschscholzia, named by the German botanist Adelbert von Chamisso after the Baltic German botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, his friend and colleague on Otto von Kotzebue’s scientific expedition to California and the greater Pacific circa 1810 aboard the Russian ship Rurik. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
