West Highland Flora

Welsh Poppy


Meconopsis cambrica

 

Meconopsis cambrica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Jun 2003 Portree, Skye

A garden escape naturalised in many places

Flower diameter c 5-7.5 cm

ID: Unmistakable in flower.  The fruit tapers to both ends, whereas in Long-headed Poppy it is as broad at the tip as in the middle.

Other features: Flowers solitary on long stalks.  Leaves not bluish-green as in Long-headed Poppy but more yellowish-green, pinnate with broad, lobed leaflets.  Native to hill country of Wales and SW England.

 

Meconopsis cambrica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Jun 2003 Portree, Skye

 

Meconopsis cambrica

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Broadford, Skye

Showing the long seed pods

  Meconopsis cambrica

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Broadford, Skye


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