Crested Prickly Poppy (Argemone polyanathemos)

   

Crested Prickly Poppy (Argemone polyanathemos). Photographs by Ad Konings.

• Common English Names: Crested Prickly Poppy
• Common Spanish Names:
• Scientific Name: Argemone polyanathemos (are-GEM-oh-knee polly-ann-THEE-mos)
• Family: Papaveraceae (Poppy Family)
• Geographic Range: Trans-Pecos of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and western Colorado.
• Plant Form: Perennial bulb to 12”
• Remarks: Bulb coated with a brown fibrous casing and usually only 2 long, thin, green channeled leaves per scape. Flowers pink with reddish mid-ribs in umbels of 10 to 20 blossoms on erect stems above the leaves.

Last Update: 19 Mar 2006