Friday, February 26, 2016

Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)

 3/10/17 Walker Canyon, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

  3/10/17 Walker Canyon, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

  3/10/17 Walker Canyon, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

  3/10/17 Walker Canyon, Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

3/31/01 Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve,
SW Riverside County, CA

3/10/02 Eaton Canyon Natural Area, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA 

2/22/03 Selby Road, Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, CA

3/6/05 Wilson Valley Road just west of junction with Hwy. 371,
Aguanga area, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: California Poppy

SPECIES: Eschscholzia californica

FAMILY: Papaveraceae (Poppy Family)

LIFE LIST DATE3/31/2001

LOCATION: Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual (or perennial herb from heavy taproot), erect or spreading, 5–60 cm, glabrous, sometimes glaucous

Leaf segments obtuse or acute

Flower: bud erect, acute to long-pointed, glabrous, sometimes glaucous; receptacle obconic; petals 20–60 mm, yellow, bases generally orange-spotted

Fruit 3–9 cm

Seed 1.5–1.8 mm wide, round to elliptic, net-ridged, brown to black

Ecology: Grassy, open areas

Elevation: 0–2000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province, w East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert 

Distribution outside California: to s Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, nw Baja California

Flowering time: Feb–Sep

Highly variable (> 90 taxa have been described). Annual plants with entire cotyledons from DMtns have been called subsp. mexicana (Greene) C. Clark; large plants from s SNF have been called  E. procera Greene, Kernville poppy. CA state flower.  TOXIC but rarely eaten

Horticultural information: SUN: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 
20, 21, 22, 23, 24 &IRR: 13; CVS.

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