Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Nombinnie Nature Reserve near Mt Hope, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Nombinnie Nature Reserve near Mt Hope, NSW

Common Name

Rough Poppy

Family

Papaveraceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 50cm tall. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 2-15cm long, flat, hairy, lobed and toothed. Flowers subtended by paired leaf-like bracts. Flowers dark pink to purplish red, with 4 petals, solitary on stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 314

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Papaver~hybridum