Prickly poppy
ಅರಸಿನ ಉಮ್ಮತ್ತघमोईபிரம்மத் தண்டு
Argemone mexicana L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Papaveraceae
Also called Mexican poppy, Mexican pricklypoppy
Formerly Argemone alba, Argemone leiocarpa, Argemone mucronata, Argemone sexvalvis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Mexico to HondurasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Welsh
- pabi Mecsico
- Finnish
- keltapiikkiunikko
- Chinese
- 蓟罂粟, 蓟罂粟子, 蓟罂粟根
- Simplified Chinese
- 刺罂粟, 蓟罂粟
- Slovenian
- mehiški bodeči mak
- Hindi
- घमोई, भड़भाड़, सत्यानाशी
- Tamil
- பிரம்மத் தண்டு
- Telugu
- బలురక్కసి
- Kannada
- ಅರಸಿನ ಉಮ್ಮತ್ತ
- Marathi
- पिवळा धोत्रा, कळलावी, विलायती
- Bangla
- শিয়ালকাঁটা
- Malayalam
- എരുമക്കള്ളി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Argemone mexicana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.