Papaver alpinum

Plant Characteristics

Habit		herbaceous
Height:	⇕	5 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5. to 20 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Width:	⇔	20 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. to 40 cm"cm" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 40.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈	Mountains of S. Europe

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun
Features:	✓	flowers
USDA Zones:		5 to 9
Flower features:	❀	orange, yellow, white

Scientific Names

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Papaver alpinum, the Alpine poppy or Dwarf poppy, is a perennial poppy found in the Alps. This species includes several sub-species, four of which are found in Austria. It forms a basal rosette clump of downy, finely-divided leaves that are gray-green to blue-green in colour. The flowers are borne on single stems.

Read about Papaver alpinum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Papaver alpinum, Linn. Alpine Poppy. Low and cespitose perennial, nearly stemless: lvs. glaucous, all radical and petiolate, glabrous or nearly so, 2-3-pinnately parted, the ultimate segms. linear or linear-lanceolate: scapes single or several, the bud ovoid or round-obovoid, usually pilose, nodding; fls. white, fragrant; petals round-obovate, erose, nearly 1 in. long or less: caps, oblong to obovate, strongly ribbed. Alps, Apennines.— The following garden varieties have been offered as of this species, but some of them are probably P. pyrenaicum: albiflorum, album, aurantiacum, flaviflorum, flavum, roseum and rubrum. P. luteum, Hort., belongs here, but P. luteum of the botanists is the Welsh Poppy, Meconopsis cambrica. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

These are quite hardy, withstanding light snow and frost during winter. They like a light, moist soil that is free draining.

Propagation

They can be propagated from root cuttings or seeds.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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