flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits

Papaver alpinum, Iceland poppy - Old World alpine poppy with white or yellow to orange flowers

Papaver californicum, western poppy - showy annual of California with red flowers

Papaver argemone, prickly poppy - annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit

arctic poppy, Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule - subarctic perennial poppy of both hemispheres having fragrant white or yellow to orange or peach flowers

oriental poppy, Papaver orientale - commonly cultivated Asiatic perennial poppy having stiff heavily haired leaves and bright scarlet or pink to orange flowers

corn poppy, field poppy, Flanders poppy, Papaver rhoeas - annual European poppy common in grain fields and often cultivated

opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - southwestern Asian herb with grayish leaves and white or reddish flowers; source of opium

Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort, celandine - perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers

California poppy, Eschscholtzia californica - of Pacific coast of North America; widely cultivated for its yellow to red flowers

golden cup, Hunnemania fumariifolia, Mexican tulip poppy - native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-gray finely dissected foliage

bocconia, Macleaya cordata, plume poppy - herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers

blue poppy, Meconopsis betonicifolia - Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes

Meconopsis cambrica, Welsh poppy - widely cultivated west European plant with showy pale yellow flowers

creamcups, Platystemon californicus - California plant with small pale yellow flowers

flaming poppy, Papaver heterophyllum, Stylomecon heterophyllum, wind poppy - California wild poppy with bright red flowers

celandine poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, wood poppy - perennial here native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers