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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 2-3 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Red
Other: Rose and salmon
Bloom Size: 3"-4"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Depth to plant seed: Surface sow
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Can start indoors in 2 inch pots. Sow successively.
Pollinators: Self
Beetles
Flies
Bees

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Common names
  • Corn Poppy
  • Shirley Poppy
  • Field Poppy
  • Flanders Field Poppy

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Location: Chudleigh, Tasmania
Date: 2018-12-28
Location: Chudleigh, Tasmania
Date: 2019-12-10
Location: Chudleigh, Tasmania
Date: 2019-12-10

Date: 2009-06-28
Location: Chudleigh, Tasmania
Date: 2019-12-10

Date: 2013-05-28
Location: Sun zone 6
Date: 2009-06-24
This poppy played out about 2 years ago.
Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2018-07-21
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-05

Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-04
Plant Events from our members
lovesblooms On March 1, 2020 Seeds sown
winter sow
lovesblooms On March 19, 2016 Seeds germinated
lovesblooms On March 7, 2016 Seeds sown
winter sown
KelliW On March 10, 2019 Seeds germinated
KelliW On January 13, 2019 Seeds sown
#19, winter sown
paleohunter On January 6, 2024 Seeds sown
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