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Common Poppy Poppy family
Papaver rhoeas Papaveraceae

Common (or Corn) Poppies often appear in drifts on the edge of cornfields or road verges. This plant is asscoated with Remembrance Day, as it was the main flower that colonised the battlefields after the First World War.

Common Poppy plant Common Poppy flower




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