Family ²

Papaveraceae

Description ³

Plants 10-25 dm. Leaves 5-20 cm, lobed, grey-green. Flowers are very large and showy with large wrinkly white petals and many yellow anthers. They are sometimes said to resemble a fried egg.

Community ²

Chaparral, Coastal Sage scrub

Flowering ²

Mar- Jul

Ethnobotany ²

"Cahuilla Food (Beverage)
Watery substance in the stalk used as a beverage.
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel 1972 Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press (p. 133)

Garden Location ²

U

Associated species ²

Sources and Credits

1. (c) gillian360, all rights reserved, uploaded by gillian360
2. (c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
3. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5004308

More Info

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