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Field poppies (Papaver rhoeas) and cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus). These plants were once common among arable crops but their numbers have dwindled in Britain with the advent of intensive agriculture and the growing use of herbicides. Both species flower from May until August, in northern Europe.
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Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), also known as the field poppy or Flanders poppy. The common poppy is an annual plant native to Africa, temperate and tropical Asia, and Europe. During the summer, its bright scarlet flowers are a common sight along roadsides and at waste sites. The poppy's red flowers became a symbol of World War I because of the plant's quick colonization of the disturbed ground of battlefields. The flowers are also a source of red dye used in some wines and medicines.
Any of a group of plants belonging to the poppy family. They have brightly coloured mainly red and orange flowers, often with dark centres, and yield a milky sap. Species include the crimson European field poppy (P. rhoeas) and the Asian opium poppy (P. somniferum), source of the drug opium. Closely related are the California poppy (Eschscholtzia californica) and the yellow horned or sea poppy (Glaucium flavum). (Poppy genus Papaver, family Papaveraceae.)
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