Appearance
Ascending to erect annual. Stems:10-55 cm, bristly throughout. Leaves: (1-)2-3-pinnatipartite, slightly setose. Basal, with elliptical to obovate, ultimate lobes. Cauline, with linear ultimate lobes. Pedicels, appressed-bristly.Flowers: On long, appressed-setose pedicels. Buds, nodding, ellipsoid to globose, sparsely setose. Petals, 6-35 mm, pale brick-red, without a distinct basal blotch, but darkening towards the base. Filaments, clavate. Anthers Violet.
Distribution
S Italy, Sicily, Crete, Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean region.Habitat
Fallow fields and roadsides, but also in dry open shrubby vegetation, gorges, screes an often coniferous woodland 0-800 m.References:
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http://www.cretanflora.com/papaver_apulum.htmlhttps://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece/cdm_dataportal/taxon/eb9c0d63-4851-43cb-a0d0-9625f36c1e3d
https://identify.plantnet.org/k-world-flora/species/Papaver%20apulum%20Ten./data
