| Accepted name: |
Glaucium flavum Crantz |
| Synonym(s): |
-Chelidonium glaucium L.
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| English names: |
Yellow Horned-poppy
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Papaverales
Family: Papaveraceae
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| OPL Code: |
HGLAFL
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
AB |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Cultivated as a new medicinal plant in Czechia, Russia, and India. Shoots and leaves contain the alkaloid glaucine, the roots have, however, protopine. In USA classified as promising new phytomedicinal crop(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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