Coulter's Poppy

by Barbie Corbett-Newmin

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Coulter's Poppy

Artist

Barbie Corbett-Newmin

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Photograph - 2d Digital Image, Watermark Not On Actual Print

Description

Coulter's Matilija poppy or Romneya coulteri is a flowering plant of the poppy family. These poppies are native to a narrow range from above Los Angeles in southern California to Northern Baja California. It grows in dry canyons in chaparral and coastal sage scrub plant communities, sometimes in areas recently burned.It is a popular ornamental plant, kept for its large, showy flowers. This shrub may exceed two meters in height, its woody stem growing from a network of rhizomes. The gray-green, waxy-textured leaves are each divided into a few lance-shaped lobes, with blades up to 20 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a large, solitary flower with six crinkly white petals each up to 10 centimeters long. At the center of the flower is a cluster of many yellow stamens. The fruit is a bristly capsule 3 or 4 centimeters long containing many tiny seeds. This plant bears the largest flowers of any species native to California, rivaled only by Hibiscus lasiocarpos. It was nominated for the honor of California state flower in 1890, but the California poppy won the title.
It is summer deciduous and winter dormant, patience is required to get it established.
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August 11th, 2021

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