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Common Poppy
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Papaver rhoeas
Bright scarlet petals as thin as tissue paper. The seeds can wait in the soil for a hundred years — and then suddenly bloom when the ground is dug up!
Height
70 cm
Blooms
Jun–Aug
Family
Poppy (Papaveraceae)
Latin name
Papaver rhoeas
Where to find
- Cornfields
- Disturbed ground
- Roadside verges