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Annual to small tree; sap often colored, often milky
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, generally toothed, lobed, or dissected; cauline generally alternate; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, or panicle (terminal), or flower solitary
Flower bisexual, generally radial; sepals 24, sometimes shed ± at flower; petals generally 4 or 6 (or more), sometimes in 2 unlike pairs; stamens 4many; ovary generally 1, superior, chamber generally 1, stigma lobes 0many, ovules 1many
Fruit: generally capsule, dehiscent by valves or pores, generally septicidal
Genera in family: 40 genera, 400 sp.: n temp, n tropical, s Africa; some cultivated (Papaver, Dicentra, Eschscholzia ). Petal length includes any spur or pouch. Hunnemannia fumariifolia Sweet (Eschscholzia-like garden per with free sepals) an uncommon waif in CA. Corydalis, Dicentra, Fumaria formerly treated in Fumariaceae.
Annual to perennial herb, glabrous, glaucous; sap colorless
Leaves deeply pinnately dissected
Inflorescence: raceme or panicle
Flower bilateral; sepals 2, shed at flower; petals 4, yellow or white to pink, persistent after pollination, outer 2 petals free, not alike, keeled (upper spurred at base), inner 2 petals adherent at tips, oblanceolate, crested on back; stamens 6, ± fused in 2 sets, opposite outer petals; ovary lanceolate, placentas 2, style 1, stigma lobes 48
Fruit generally cylindric to oblong, dehiscent from tip
Seeds severalmany, 22.5 mm, round-reniform, smooth or rough, black
Species in genus: ± 100 species: n hemisphere, s Africa (some ornamental)
Etymology: (Greek: crested lark)
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Annual or biennial, 1040 cm, glaucous
Leaves severalmany, 318 cm
Inflorescence: raceme, few-flowered
Flower: petals 911 mm, yellow, spur 45 mm
Fruit 1825 mm, cylindric
Ecology: Open areas
Elevation: 15002300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, eastern US, n Mexico
Flowering time: MayAug
Horticultural information: TRY.