Opium poppy
ಗಸಗಸೆअफ़ीम पोस्ताகசகசா
Papaver somniferum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 81 cm
- wide
- 20 cm
Papaveraceae
Also called Breadseed poppy, Opium Poppy
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, W. & C. Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 81 cmRead from Plants for a Future and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Plants for a Future 0.6–0.6 m; Wikipedia 100–100 cm
- Spread
- 20 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- guia-guiña, PAPSOM, Llysiau cwsg
- Spanish
- adormidera, amapola real, dormidera
- French
- Pavot somnifère, Pavot à opium
- Czech
- mák setý
- Catalan
- Cascall
- Estonian
- unimagun, aedmagun
- Danish
- Opium-valmue
- Dutch
- Slaapbol
- Russian
- Мак снотворный
- Portuguese
- Papoula-do-Ópio, Dormideira
- Norwegian Bokmål
- opiumsvalmue
- German
- Schlafmohn, Blaumohn
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Papaver somniferum (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.