Common name: Yellow Horned-poppy, Horned Poppy
Glaucium flavum Crantz APNI* 
Description: Erect or spreading biennial to 1 m high.
Leaves to c. 20 cm long, pinnately lobed, the lobes toothed, roughly hairy; lower leaves shortly petiolate, upper leaves sessile.
Petals 2–3 cm long, yellow or orange, readily shed.
Capsule 10–25 cm long; seeds numerous.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: uncommon minor weed. Native of c. Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *NWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs, Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed April 2017)
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