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Harebell Poppy

Meconopsis quintuplinervia

Harebell Poppy
Photo: Wang.QG, CC BY 4.0

Harebell poppy is a perennial woodland-edge and alpine-meadow flower from western China and nearby Tibet, grown for its nodding lavender-blue blooms. It needs cool summers and moist, humus-rich soil, and it resents heat and dry spells.

Family
Papaveraceae (Poppy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist through the growing season and never let it dry out.
Soil
Cool, moist, humus-rich, well-drained loam with plenty of organic matter.
Temperature
10–18 °C in summer; hardy to about -20 °C; struggles in hot summers above 25 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Tibet to N. & C. China
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Meconopsis quintuplinervia, the harebell poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, native to China. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Other Meconopsis plants

Prickly Blue Poppy

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Meconopsis quintuplinervia 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.

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