Description
Glaucium – Horned Poppy – Sea Poppy –
There are about 25 species of erect, often rosette forming, annuals, biennials, and short lived perennials, in this genus. They are disturbed or waste ground in Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Central and Southwestern Asia. They have pinnatifid, hairless to softly hairy, narrowly ovate to nearly rounded, glaucous leaves with large terminal lobes and orange yellow sap. Showy, solitary, terminal and axillary, poppy like, paper thin, yellow, red, or white flowers are borne mainly in summer, are followed by 12″ long, curved, decorative seed heads that rapidly elongates. Grow in a border, gravel garden, or in seaside plantings. Roots are toxic if ingested.
Grow in poor to moderately fertile, well drained soil in full sun. They resent disturbance.
G. flavum – Yellow Horned Poppy – This basal rosette forming slightly hairy, short lived perennial, usually grown as a biennial from Western and Southern Europe, the Canary Islands, Coastal North Africa and Western Asia grows 12-36″ tall and 18″ wide. It produces pinnatifid, glaucous, hairless, rough, gray-green leaves, 6-12″ long, the lobes incised or toothed. In summer it bears branched gray stems of bright golden yellow or orange flowers, to 3″ across.
Zones 6-9
