Common Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
- Found in India
- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal & more
How to identify Common Poppy
Identify Common Poppy by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Classic red field poppy with a black center.
- Confirm flower colour: Red.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Bihar and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Papaveraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Common Poppy.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Papaver rhoeas
- Genus
- Papaver
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Found in India
- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Delhi, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Punjab, Rajasthan
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
Typical of the Papaveraceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Redrecorded
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The capsules are hairless, obovoid (egg-shaped), less than twice as tall as they are wide, with a stigma at least as wide as the capsule.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
Characters marked “recorded” are for Common Poppy itself; the rest are typical of the Papaveraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- ಗಸಗಸೆ
About Common Poppy
Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is a species in the Papaveraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and 8 other states.
Uses
It is grown for parts that are eaten, long used in traditional medicine and a source of dye or tannin. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
In culture
It is used as an official or regional emblem and is recorded in classical literature.
Papaveraceae
Poppy Family
Common Poppy belongs to the Papaveraceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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