Plants annual, caulescent, to 50 cm high, hispid; stems branched. Leaves to 10 cm long, blades deeply 1- or 2-pinnately lobed, upper ones not stem-clasping. Peduncles appressed-hispid; petals early caducous, to 25 mm long, red to purplish-red, with dark basal spot; filaments purple, clavate, anthers pale blue; stigmas 4–8, disc convex. Capsules sessile, obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, to 1.5 cm long, obscurely to distinctly ribbed, densely and firmly setose, disc often deciduous. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MuF, Gold, NIS, WPro. Also naturalised WA, NT, SA, NSW. Native to Eurasia, northern Africa. Usually in open, often disturbed areas, sometimes in open woodlands, in sand, sandy loam, and clay loam.
Source:
Kiger, R.W. (1996). Papaver. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 69–72. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
