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Common Poppy

Flowering Plants

An annual flowering plant native to North Africa and temperate Eurasia, now found across Europe and western Asia and introduced to temperate regions worldwide. It grows to about 70 centimeters and bears vivid red flowers five to ten centimeters across with four petals often marked with a black spot at the base, producing as many as 400 flowers in a season though each lasts only a day. It thrives in disturbed ground such as farmland, roadsides and fallow fields, especially where herbicides are not used, behaving as a successful agricultural weed. Since the First World War it has symbolized remembrance for fallen soldiers across Commonwealth nations, most famously through the poem In Flanders Fields, and it appears on the currency and stamps of several countries as well as carrying older symbolic meanings in Chinese, Persian and Urdu literature.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Invasive or Introduced Species 1

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 3

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Papaver rhoeas 1

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated 5

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Source Wikidata: Common Poppy

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Sources

1. Wikipedia: Papaver rhoeas

Wikipedia

Wikidata Q130201 (P225 taxon name)
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 344451
Papaver rhoeas, with common names including common poppy, corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, and Odai, is an annual herbaceous species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae.
article text (relationship to people), EntityId 344451
It is native to north Africa and temperate Eurasia and is introduced into temperate areas on all other continents except Antarctica.

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. NatureServe Explorer: Papaver rhoeas

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

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"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Ranunculales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12388

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"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Ranunculales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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5. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Papaver rhoeas

GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 2888443, category field

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"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Papaveraceae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12488

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12488

"cites_listing":"III/NC","eu_listing":"C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Papaverales","family":"Papaveraceae"},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Poppy","language":"EN"},{"name":"Amapolas","language":"ES"},{"name":"Coquelicot de l'Himalaya","language":"FR"},{"name":"罂粟科","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]

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Wikidata: Common Poppy

Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source

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