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Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas L.)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
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Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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      In Flanders fields the poppies blow
      Between the crosses, row on row,
      That mark our place; and in the sky
      The larks, still bravely singing, fly
      Scarce heard amid the guns below.
      (In Flanders Field by Lieut. Col. John McCrae, who died in France on January 28, 1918, after four years of service on the Western Front)

The corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas L.), simple and enduring, has been a symbol of rural beauty and tradition for thousands of years. Artist John Ruskin (1819–1900) called it the most transparent and delicate of all the field blossoms (Haughton 1978). Other names for the species include field poppy, corn rose, pepper box, Flanders poppy, canker, redfield, and red poppy (de Bray 1978; le Strange 1977).

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2000, pp. 826 - 829
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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