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Eschscholzia lemmonii
Lemmon's poppy is a California annual wildflower with orange or dark yellow poppy flowers, found in the Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada foothills and Transverse Ranges. It is grown as a sunny, low-water annual, and is grown from seed in dry, well-drained ground.
Eschscholzia lemmonii is a species of poppy known by the common name Lemmon's poppy.
It is endemic to California, where its distribution includes the Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada foothills, and Transverse Ranges. One subspecies, the Tejon poppy, ssp. kernensis, is limited to the mountains of Kern County surrounding the Grapevine. This wildflower is an annual herb growing from a patch of segmented leaves made up of round-edged leaflets. The erect stalks grow up to 30 centimeters tall and bear orange or dark yellow poppy flowers. The fruit is a capsule 3 to 7 centimeters long containing tiny netted brown seeds.
Joshua Tree Poppy · Tufted poppy · California poppy · Eschscholzia elegans · Desert poppy · San Benito poppy · Fryingpans · Pygmy poppy · Eschscholzia palmeri · Cryptic Desert Poppy · Parish's poppy · Channel Island poppy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eschscholzia lemmonii 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.
