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  1. Family: Papaveraceae Juss.

    1. Papaver L.

        2. This genus is accepted, and is native to Asia-Tropical, Europe, Africa, Northern America and Asia-Temperate..

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Gulf States, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Manchuria, Mexico Northwest, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Mexico, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon

    Introduced into:

    Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile Central, Chile South, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Iowa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Laos, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Queensland, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wisconsin

    Accepted Species

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Papaver L. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    22196.000
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8121], Nepal Meconopsis K001129010
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8122], India Meconopsis K001129011
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8123], India Meconopsis K001129012
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8123], Nepal Meconopsis K001129013
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8124], India Meconopsis K001129014
    Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 8125], Nepal Meconopsis K001129015
    s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] Meconopsis K001132281

    Bibliography

    First published in Sp. Pl.: 506 (1753)

    Accepted by

    • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

    Sources

    Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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