Argemone ochroleuca Sweet is a plant in the Papaveraceae family, order Ranunculales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

Argemone ochroleuca, commonly pale Mexican prickly poppy, is a flowering prickly poppy native to Mexico and introduced as a weed elsewhere.

Family
Genus
Argemone
Order
Ranunculales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

Argemone ochroleuca Sweet is a species of prickly poppy, a type of flowering plant. Its common names are pale Mexican prickly poppy and Mexican poppy. It is native to Mexico, and has been introduced as a weed to many temperate and tropical regions across the world. This plant can reach a maximum height of 1 meter (equal to 3 feet 3 inches), and produces a sticky yellow sap.

Photo: (c) Alfonso Gutiérrez Aldana, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alfonso Gutiérrez Aldana · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ranunculales Papaveraceae Argemone

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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