Blackspot Hornpoppy

Nile region (Cairo region), Mediterranean region and Sinai.

Bulgharia, Romania, Caucasia, Iran,  Mediterranean region, Sinai, Arabia, north Iraq.

Moist waste ground.

Annual.

Glaucium corniculatum has been widely introduced outside its native Eurasian range as a crop weed and ballast waif. It can persist in a fairly broad range of climates and probably is established in North America more widely than existing herbarium records indicate.

Plants annual or occasionally biennial, to 5 dm. Stems branching. Leaves to 25 cm; basal few, blade glabrate to moderately pubescent; basal and proximal cauline with blade lyrate, 7-9-lobed; distal with blade ovate, not distinctly clasping stem (sometimes slightly cordate-clasping); margins deeply dentate. Flowers: pedicels stout, to 5 cm; sepals 15-30 mm; petals orange to reddish orange, usually with blackish basal spot, obovate, to 40 mm. Capsules sublinear, straight or slightly curved, to 25 cm, appressed- to ascending-pubescent or glabrate.

introduced; Kans., Mont., Nev., N.Y., Oreg., Pa., Tex.; Europe; sw Asia.

Flowering late spring-summer.

Open shores, fields, pastures, and canyon slopes; 0-1600m.

Chelidonium corniculatum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 506. 1753

Glaucium corniculatum, the blackspot hornpoppy or red horned-poppy, is a species of the genus Glaucium in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is an annual flowering plant, occurring in southern Europe, and grows up to 1 foot (30 cm) high. The stem and leaves are hairy, the capsule fruit is covered with stiff hair, the flower is red, with a black spot on the base of the tepal bract, which has a yellow margin around it. The flower appears from June until August.