Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientale) in the Poppies Database

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Soil pH Preferences:	Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 9b
Plant Height:	2-3 feet
Plant Spread:	1-2 feet
Leaves:	Spring ephemeral
Fruit:	Showy
Fruiting Time:	Summer Late summer or early fall
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	Orange Pink Red White Other: With black to purplish-black center
Bloom Size:	4"-5" 5"-6"
Flower Time:	Spring Late spring or early summer
Underground structures:	Taproot
Uses:	Cut Flower Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees Butterflies Hummingbirds
Resistances:	Deer Resistant Rabbit Resistant Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds:	Provide light Self fertile Needs specific temperature: 65ºF Days to germinate: 14-21 days Depth to plant seed: Surface sow, gently pressing into soil Suitable for wintersowing Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods:	Cuttings: Root Division Other: very long tap root
Pollinators:	Self Bees
Miscellaneous:	Tolerates poor soil

Common names

Oriental Poppy
Poppy

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Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-06-12
Sold as Miss Piggy (a white cv) so this one called Babe lol

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2011-05-18

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Location: Leverett, Massachusetts
Date: July
Short lived flower. Blooms so quickly, it’s hard to catch this

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Location: Leverett, Massachusetts
Date: July
We mow around this field of Poppies, as they were in our yard lon

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Date: June
Image by Spencer C. H. Barrett, University of Toronto

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Location: Leverett, Massachusetts
Date: July
I let the pods dry on the stalk. When they rattle, I harvest the

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Location: My Gardens
Date: May 17, 2016
An Opening Bud

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Location: Leverett, Massachusetts
Date: July

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Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2020-05-30

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Location: Liverpool, England
Date: 2024-06-07

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Location: My garden in North Carolina zone 7b
Date: 05-13-2024

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2017-05-15

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Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2009-06-01
showing how large the flowers are!

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Location: my garden
Date: 2014 May
This double orange oriental poppy was passed along to me from the

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Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2020-06-03

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Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2010-05-24

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Location: RavenCroft Cottage
Date: 2013-05-31

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Location: My garden in North Carolina zone 7b
Date: 2024-04-13

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Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - near Lake Ontario, zone 6a
Date: 2013-06-04

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2010-03-17
first leaves of spring

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Location: my garden zone 7b NC
Date: 2012-06-04

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2008-05-05

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2008-05-09
fuzzy unopened flowers

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2007-05-10

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Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2011-05-31

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Location: Sun Zone 6a
Date: 2012-06-06
This oriental variety Orange Brilliant, blooms later than the oth

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Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 4000-05-09

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Location: Mackinaw, Illinois
Date: 2012-07-05
Leaves die back and look very unattractive once blooming is over.

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Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-06-02

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Comments:

Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Jun 18, 2014 9:44 AM concerning plant:

Can become floppy, but regular deadheading will normally keep them upright. After bloom, the foliage turns yellow/brown and dies back. At this point, I cut the entire plant back hard. I will often then get a second low flush of foliage only. Does not self-seed aggressively in my PNW garden, just some extra seedlings at the foot of the mature plants, easy enough to control (or allow your clump to expand depending on your needs).

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Posted by gardengus (Indiana Zone 5b) on Oct 27, 2011 5:37 PM concerning plant:

These flowers disappear after blooming, leaving a bare place in the garden; I plant annuals in the same space.
The last few years it has been balsam (impatiens balsamin); they self sow and grow and flower after the poppies are gone.

Transplanting:
I have found early spring transplanting to be the best, however they ''appear'' to die; mark the spot, they almost always return the next year.

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Posted by threegardeners (Brockville, Ontario, Canada - Zone 5a) on Oct 27, 2011 6:22 PM concerning plant:

Zone 5a, Ontario, Canada

These can be slightly invasive...they do not stay where you put them and will self seed like crazy. Hard to eradicate if you decide you don't want them. My Mom has been trying to get rid of mine for years with no success :))

They are beautiful though.

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Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Apr 16, 2012 12:40 PM concerning plant:

Valuable source of pollen for honey bees.

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dragonfetti	On January 12, 2015	Obtained plant From WM; .20 per pack; "Mixed Colors". Four packs.
MrsBinWY	On July 15, 2018	Seeds sown 25 groups of seeds from the red poppies from the seeds Margaret Shaw collected in Sun Valley and gave to me in 2015. Milk jug @ room temp. 2018 garden
MrsBinWY	On February 4, 2017	Seeds sown milk jug, cool spot in sun room, 12 groups of seeds from Aunt Margrett's fringed orange poppies (stem collected May 2016). No germination.
susanandrews	On May 14, 2019	Bloomed

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