horned poppy
Glaucium latin

The shingle bank holds large numbers of Yellow Horned Poppy.

Flora Yellow horned poppies and rare sea-pea.

Glaucium flavum, Yellow horned poppy, native of Western Europe.

Glaucium grandiflora, Horned poppy, native of western Mediterranean.

Although resembling the true horned poppies of Glaucium, they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns".

The shingle ridge attracts biting stonecrop, sea campion, yellow horned poppy, sea thrift, bird's foot trefoil and sea beet.

Dicranostigma, also known as the eastern horned poppies, is a genus in the poppy family Papaveraceae, the species of which are native to the Himalaya and western China.

The annual Dicranostigma erectum and biennial/perennial Dicranostigma lactucoides ("Himalayan horned poppy") are regularly cultivated.

The shingle ridge supports a maritime plant community; species present here include Sea Kale, Sea Beet, Sea Campion, Thrift and Yellow horned poppy.

The shingle ridges on Scolt Head Island and from Blakeney Point east to Salthouse attract biting stonecrop, sea campion, yellow horned poppy, sea thrift and sea beet.

Glaucium (Horned Poppy) is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia.

Plant communities include Yellow horned poppy, Sea Kale, Sea Beet, Curled Dock, Sea Holly, Sand Catchfly, Viper's Bugloss and Nottingham Catchfly.

Glaucium flavum (yellow hornpoppy or yellow horned poppy) is a summer flowering plant in the Papaveraceae family, which is native to Northern Africa, Macronesia, temperate zones in Western Asia and the Caucasus, as well as Europe.

For a detailed bibliography on Glaucine and Glaucium flavum see: National Agricultural Library (Glaugium flavum entry)

Genus: Papaver, Argemone, Meconopsis, Sanguinária, Bocconia, Roemeria, Glaucium, Chelidonium, Hypecoum Ordo 10.