Yellow Horned Poppy

Glaucium flavum

The Yellow Horned Poppy is a bright yellow flower that grows near the coast. Its unique horn-like seed pods make it special and fun to see in nature!

Lebensraum: Coastal areas

Aussehen

The Yellow Horned Poppy has striking cup-shaped, bright yellow to orange flowers. Its leaves are a distinctive bluish-green (glaucous) and deeply lobed. What makes it unique are the incredibly long, slender, horn-like seed pods that grow upright.

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Yellow Horned Poppy

Kategorie

Pflanzen

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

Mach den ersten Snap!

Interessante Fakten

Ancient people might have known this poppy, possibly using its oil or other parts for remedies.

Each of its lengthy seed pods can hold hundreds of tiny seeds, ensuring lots of new plants!

Its horn-like seed pods can grow longer than your ruler, reaching up to 30 centimeters!

This hardy plant loves to grow on windy, sandy, or stony beaches where few others can survive.

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Yellow Horned Poppy can thrive in salty coastal environments thanks to special adaptations in its cells that cope with salinity.

Yellow Horned Poppy produces bitter chemicals called alkaloids that help protect it from being eaten by most herbivores.

Yellow Horned Poppy has incredibly long, horn-shaped seed pods that split open to scatter seeds far and wide.

Maße und Details

Höhe: 30-90 cm
Blütengröße: 5-9 cm
Blütezeit: Sommer
Essbar: Nein
Giftigkeit: Mäßig
Lebenszyklus: Zweijährig
Bestäubungsmethode: Insekten

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

European Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Collects pollen and nectar.

pollinates

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Bombus terrestris

Feeds on flower nectar.

pollinates

Common Drone Fly

Eristalis tenax

Visits flowers for pollen.

Merkmale

Blühend

Blütenpflanzen sind alle Pflanzen, die als Teil ihres Fortpflanzungszyklus Blüten bilden.

Sommerblühend

Sommerblühende Pflanzen bringen ihre Blüten während der Sommersaison hervor und sorgen oft für leuchtende Farben, wenn viele andere Pflanzen bereits verblüht sind.