Taxon: Eschscholzia californica Cham.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Eschscholzia californica subsp. californica (no accessions)
• Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana (no accessions)

Common names:

• California-poppy   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• California-poppy   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English   [Eschscholzia californica subsp. californica]
  
• Mexican gold-poppy   (Source: Native Pl Database [http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ESCAM]) – English   [Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana]
  
• Mexican-gold   (Source: Poppies 61. 1993 [as E. mexicana]) – English   [Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana]
  
• hua ling cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• eschscholzie de Californie   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• pavot de Californie   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• sömntuta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F CalifJep)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Eschscholzia californica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon [w.], Washington [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.w.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada [s. & w.], Utah [s.w.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte [n.w.], Chihuahua [n.w.], Sonora [n.]

• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Clark, C. 1978. Systematic studies of Eschscholzia (Papaveraceae). I. The origin and affinities of E. mexicana. Syst. Bot. 3:374–385.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Grey-Wilson, C. 1993. Poppies: The poppy family in the wild and in cultivation. 57.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eschscholzia californica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eschscholzia californica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eschscholzia californica.

Synonyms:

• Eschscholzia douglasii Benth. [= Eschscholzia californica subsp. californica]
  
• Eschscholzia mexicana Greene [≡ Eschscholzia californica subsp. mexicana]
  

Check other web resources for Eschscholzia californica Cham.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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