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22nd May 2009, Duddon Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Up to 60cm tall with yellow (sometimes orange) petals. White flowers of Sanicle also in the photo (the lower ones; the tallest white flowers belong to another Umbellifer). |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves pale-green with yellowish tinge. Grows in rocky places in the hilly areas. Flowers usually drooping below the horizontal. |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Un-opened flower buds hang down on an upturned U-shaped stalk. The green sepals have a few white hairs, but the sepals drop off when the flowers open. Stems sparsely hairy. |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The sepals drop off open flowers; none here. |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
A wide ring of a multitude of stamens with yellow anthers surrounds a small green ovary tipped by a white stigma, here a five-starred one, others usually four. |
31st May 2005, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Foulridge. | Photo: © RWD |
Some flowers are orange, but still with yellow anthers. |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The green ovary will grow longer into a seed capsule. |
24th June 2006, Walkden, Greater Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
The seed capsule growing longer within the centre of the flower. Capsule is beaked, being topped by remnants of stigma. Stamens now withering. |
8th June 2007, Greenside Mine track, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The petals drop off, the seed capsule, green at first, stand up erect. |
8th June 2007, Greenside Mine track, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The seed capsule surrounded by the withering stamens, soon to drop off. |
8th June 2007, Greenside Mine track, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The seed capsules turn brown from the top, which presumably dries them with subsequent shrinking of the panels and they peel back from the top, allowing the tiny seeds to escape when disturbed by wind or animals. The seeds are tiny. |
4th April 2006, Walkden, Greater Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
The basal rosette of leaves before flowering. |
8th June 2007, Greenside Mine track, Glenridding, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves yellowish green, pinnately lobed. Stems only slightly hairy, hollow, and ooze a yellow liquid if broken. |
11th May 2012, Torver, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
A distinctive leaflet, almost hairless. |
Some similarities to : Atlas Poppy, which also has yellowish-orange flowers but that has long leaves with triangular lobes. Slight resemblance to : Yellow Horned-Poppy which also has yellow flowers but that grows by the seaside and has massively long seed capsules, curling out over a foot, and to Greater Celandine but that has glaucous-green rounded-lobed leaves and exudes an orange liquid if the stems are broken. Has a hollow stem but without the milky latex of the Papaver or Glaucium poppies. The only plant in this Genus, Meconopsis, at least in Eorope (but other species exist from China and the Himalayas). It is planted extensively in gardens from where it readily spreads. It has pinnately divided leaves and mostly yellow flowers, but orange flowers are quite common.
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