Hypecoum
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Read about Hypecoum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Hypecoum (an old Greek name). Papaveraceae. Annual herbs, sometimes grown in the flower-garden. Scapes erect, ascending or prostrate: lvs. radical and more or less rosulate, pinnately parted, the segms. pinnatifid or pinnately lobed, the floral lvs. less divided: fls. rather small, yellow or white; sepals 2, small, deciduous; petals 4, in 2 series, the outer ones often lobed, the 2 inner ones deeply 3-parted; stamens 4, opposite the petals: caps, narrow and silique-like, constricted between the seeds.—Species 15, according to the latest monograph (Fedde, in Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 40, 1909), in the Medit. region and east to China. They are of simple cult, under usual garden conditions. H. procumbens, Linn. One foot: sts. or scapes ascending or becoming decumbent in fr.: lvs. glaucous-green, the basal ones 2-pinnatifid and the lobes very narrow and entire: fls. bright yellow, about ½ in. across; outer petals somewhat 3-lobed but the side lobes very short. Medit. region to India. Variable. H. grandiflorum, Benth. Six to 12 in., forking: lvs. with "narrow linear segms. which are often lobed at top: fls. orange, about ½ in. across, the outer petals with prominent side lobes. Medit. region to Asia Minor. L. H. B.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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