Taxon: Papaver nudicaule L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Papaver nudicaule subsp. americanum (no accessions)
• Papaver nudicaule subsp. nudicaule var. aquilegioides (no accessions)

Common names:

• Arctic poppy   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Icelandic poppy   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• ye ying su   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pavot d'Islande   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• rishiri-hina-geshi   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• linnévallmo   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• sibirisk vallmo   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Papaver nudicaule 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:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.e.]
  Mongolia: Mongolia
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• EUROPE
  Europe [Alps]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China

References:

• Panarctic flora. Online. [comments on the complexity of its populations, and considers that Papaver nudicaule in broad sense includes at least two morphologically distinst species in Siberia, and probably others in the north temperate regions].
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Elven, R. et al. 2009. Typification of names in Papaver sect. Meconella Spach (Papaveraceae). Taxon 58:985–990.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Grey-Wilson, C. 1993. Poppies: The poppy family in the wild and in cultivation.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kadereit, J. W. 2011. Review of Papaveraceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [cultivated].
• Yamagishi, M. et al. 2010. A cultivated poppy (Papaver sp.) invades wild habitats of Papaver fauriei in the mountain area of Rhishiri Island, Japan. Landsc. Ecol. Engineer. 6:155–159. [this study included Papaver nudicaule s. lat., a wild species in Siberia as a source of comparison (using ITS) for identifying a Japanese cultivated Papaver plant].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Papaver nudicaule.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Papaver nudicaule.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Papaver nudicaule.

Synonyms:

• Papaver anomalum Fedde [= Papaver nudicaule subsp. nudicaule var. aquilegioides]
  
• (=) Papaver croceum Ledeb.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Papaver miyabeanum Tatew. ex Miyabe & Tatew.
  

Check other web resources for Papaver nudicaule L.:

• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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