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Argemone

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Distinguish|Agrimonia}}

{{Redirect|Prickly Poppy|another plant known by this name|Papaver argemone}}

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| authority = L.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?945 |title=Genus: Argemone L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2001-11-28 |access-date=2010-10-28}}

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Argemone is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae commonly known as prickly poppies.{{ITIS |id= 18902 |taxon=Argemone |accessdate=2010-10-28}} There are about 32 species native to the Americas and Hawaii.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=102532 Argemone.] Flora of North America. The generic name originated as ἀργεμώνη in Greek and was applied by Dioscorides to a poppy-like plant used to treat cataracts.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=D. |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-86645-3 |year=2008 |page=55}}ἄργεμον (argemon) means "cataract" in Greek. See {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names |volume=I: A-C |year=2000 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-2675-2 |page=191}}

Selected species

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  • Argemone aenea G.B. Ownbey – golden prickly poppy
  • Argemone albiflora Hornem – bluestem prickly poppy
  • Argemone albiflora subsp. albiflora
  • Argemone albiflora subsp. texana G.B.Ownbey
  • Argemone arizonica G.B.Ownbey – Arizona prickly poppy
  • Argemone aurantiaca G.B.Ownbey – Texas prickly poppy
  • Argemone chisosensis G.B.Ownbey – Chisos Mountain prickly poppy
  • Argemone corymbosa Greene – Mojave prickly poppy
  • Argemone corymbosa subsp. arenicola
  • Argemone corymbosa subsp. corymbosa
  • Argemone glauca (Nutt. ex Prain) Pope – pua kala (Hawaii){{cite web |url=http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/resultsdetailed.asp?search=pua_kala |title=pua kala, kala, naule, pokalakala |publisher=Bernice P. Bishop Museum |work=Hawaii Ethnobotany Online Database |access-date=2009-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702123734/http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/resultsdetailed.asp?search=pua_kala |archive-date=2007-07-02}}
  • Argemone glauca var. decipiens G.B.Ownbey
  • Argemone glauca var. glauca (Nutt. ex Prain) Pope
  • Argemone gracilenta Greene – Sonoran prickly poppy

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References

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External links

  • [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5547,5550 Jepson Manual Treatment]

Further reading

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Category:Papaveraceae genera

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