Other common names
African rose, blind-eyes, blue-eyes, canker, canker rose, cheese couls, cheese cowl, cock rose, cop rose, copper rose, corn poppy, corn rose, cornflower, field poppy, Flanders poppy, headache plant, headaches, pabi coch, prophetic leaf, red cornflower, red poppy, redweed, Shirley poppy, thunder flower, wind rose
Synonyms
Papaver arvaticum, Papaver vulgaris
Annual Biennial
An erect annual about 75-90cm tall, with oblong, downy light green leaves to 15cm long, and solitary, bright scarlet, bowl-shaped flowers, sometimes marked black at the petal bases, produced in summer, on short downy stalks
Position
Full sun
Soil Types
Chalk, Loam, Sand
Max Height
0.5-1 metres
Max Spread
0.1-0.5 metres