Other common names
African rose, blind-eyes, blue-eyes, cheese couls, cheese cowl, cock rose, cop rose, copper rose, corn poppy, field poppy, Flanders poppy, headaches, prophetic leaf, red cornflower, red poppy, redweed, Shirley poppy, wind rose, canker, canker rose, corn rose, cornflower, headache plant, thunder flower, pabi coch
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