Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Ranunculanae > Order Ranunculales > Family Papaveraceae > Subfamily Papaveroideae > Genus Papaver

Papaver somniferum L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PapaverL.accepted genus name
Closterandra Bél. synonym

Species group names

Papaver album Mill. synonym
Papaver hortense Hussenot synonym; nom. illeg.
Papaver officinale C. C. Gmel. synonym
Papaver somniferum subsp. hortense Arcang. synonym
Papaver somniferum subsp. nigrum Schübl. & G. Martens synonym
Papaver somniferum subsp. nigrum (DC.) Thell. synonym

Children

Papaver somniferum L. subsp. somniferum
Papaver somniferum var. nigrum DC.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Aragonese: ababol de jardín; adormidera; amapola; cascall sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Asturian: adormideira sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Catalan: adormidora; cascall/s; cascalls; dormidera; dormidora; herba dormidera; herba dormidora; pintacocas; pintacoques; pintcacoques sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Euskera: lo-belar; lobelarra; loerazla; loergillea; loezarla; opio-belar; opio-belarra; urrenederra sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Galician: dormideira; dormideira-das-boticas sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Majorcan: cacaraquets; cascall; cascay; cascay blanch sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Portuguese: dormideira; dormideira branca; dormideira das boticas; dormideira dos jardins; dormideira negra; dormideira-brava; dormideira-das-boticas; dormideira-dos-jardins; dormideiras; dormideiras blancas; papoilas de Hollanda; papoula de Holanda; papoula do ópio; papoula-da-India sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Spanish, Castillian: ababolones; adormidera; adormidera blanca; adormidera lunar; adormidera negra; adormideras; adormideras blancas; adormilera; almidera; amapola; amapola blanca; amapola de adorno; amapola real; amapolona; anapola de la droga; anapola real; apio dormidera; cascal; cascales; dormideras; dormideras blancas; hierba cascales; hierba dormidera; marijuana; papaver blanco; papoya sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Valencian: carabasseta de cascall; cascajo d'ormiguera; cascall; cascall blanc

Literature

nomenclatural reference

L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

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Citation

Aghababian, M. (2011): Papaveroideae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Papaver somniferum L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=27BED645-5229-4926-9744-5DFE7ECB6827

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Occurrence

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2004-01-11 by Aghababian, M. (2011): Papaveroideae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

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