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Botanical details
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Papaver
- Genus description
Papaver can be annuals, biennials or herbaceous perennials with simple or pinnately divided leaves and short-lived, saucer-shaped, 4-petalled flowers which may be solitary or in racemes
- Name status
Correct
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