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White fairypoppy

Meconella oregana

Also called Oregon meconella, White Fairy-Poppy, Oregon Fairypoppy, White Meconella

White fairypoppy
Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Papaveraceae (Poppy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
SW. Canada to CW. California
Climate
temperate

About

Meconella oregana, the white fairypoppy, is a flowering plant species native to Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. It grows on sandy bluffs, meadows and stream banks, at elevations of less than 300 m (1000 feet).

Meconella oregana is a small herb up to 16 cm (6.3 inches) tall. It has narrow, linear leaves up to 18 mm (0.7 inches) long. Flowers are solitary on long, thin stalks, white with 4-6 stamens (compared with 8-12 stamens in M. californica).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Meconella oregana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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