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poppy family
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Noun1.poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
order Papaverales, order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales - an order of dicotyledonous plants
poppy - annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers
genus Papaver, Papaver - type genus of the Papaveraceae; chiefly bristly hairy herbs with usually showy flowers
genus Argemone - prickly poppies
genus Bocconia - tropical American trees or shrubs closely related to genus Macleaya
Chelidonium, genus Chelidonium - one species: greater celandine
genus Corydalis, Corydalis - annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa
Dendromecon, genus Dendromecon - one species: bush poppy
Eschscholtzia, genus Eschscholtzia - showy herbs of western North America
genus Glaucium, Glaucium - herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy
genus Hunnemania, Hunnemannia - one species: golden cup
genus Macleaya, Macleaya - a perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy
genus Meconopsis, Meconopsis - herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic
genus Platystemon, Platystemon - one species: creamcups
genus Romneya, Romneya - one species: matilija poppy
genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria - one species: bloodroot
genus Stylomecon, Stylomecon - one species: wind poppy


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If allowed to self-seed around your garden, as this member of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) will do, named varieties will gradually return to their parentage and revert to the orange-yellow flowers.
BLOODROOT The Canadian bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis is a miniature member (4in tall) of the poppy family, with numerically correct many petals, forming puffy crystalline white blooms.
 
 
 
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