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Eschscholzia hypecoides
San Benito poppy is a California wildflower, an annual herb with bright yellow to orange poppy flowers on thin stems up to 30 cm tall. It grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and is easiest sown directly where it is to bloom.
Eschscholzia hypecoides is a species of poppy known by the common name San Benito poppy.
The wildflower is endemic to California where it is mainly limited to the Inner Southern California Coast Ranges, in and around San Benito County. It is a plant of oak woodlands, grassland slopes, and chaparral habitats.
Joshua Tree Poppy · Tufted poppy · California poppy · Eschscholzia elegans · Desert poppy · Lemmon's poppy · Fryingpans · Pygmy poppy · Eschscholzia palmeri · Cryptic Desert Poppy · Parish's poppy · Channel Island poppy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eschscholzia hypecoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
