Poppies & Fumitories

Judean Fumitory Mediterranean Poppy Beardless Hypecoum Common Poppy



Poppy Family - Papaveraceae

Common Poppy      Papaver rhoeas

Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region to western and Central Asia.

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Mediterranean Poppy      Papaver apulum

Native from Italy and the Balkan Peninsula to the Aegean Islands. Resembles Rough Poppy, but has purple anthers and unribbed seed capsules.

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Yellow Horned Poppy      Glaucium flavum

Native from macaronesia, through coasts of western Europe, the Mediterranean and Black Sea to Iran.

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Beardless Hypecoum      Hypecoum imberbe

Native throughout the Mediterranean to the Middle East. Flowers golden-yellow with relatively broad petals. Flower bracts narrow and linear.

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White Ramping Fumitory      Fumaria capreolata

Native to Macaronesia, North-west Europe and throughout the Mediterranean Region. Flowers relatively large, creamy white, with a dark, blackish-purple tip. Sepals 4-6mm long, large and relatively broad.

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Flower with long, broad sepal
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Judean Fumitory      Fumaria judaica

Native to the central and eastern Mediterranean area, from Italy and Libya eastwards to the Middle East.

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Common Fumitory      Fumaria officinalis

Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region. Sepals 2-3.5mm long, small and relatively narrow.

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Flower with short, narrow sepal
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Fine-leaved Fumitory      Fumaria parviflora

Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Pakistan. Flowers small, white, with a dark purple tip. Sepals less than 1mm long, small and relatively deeply toothed. Leaves narrow, with the deeply cut sections clearly grooved.

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