Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Great Moravian on December 11, 2013, 11:44:30 AM
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An example of naturalized alpine plant is Papaver croceum at the Morteratsch glacier, incorrectly labelled Papaver rhaeticum in the AGS Photographic Competition. The latter never has orange flowers, solely yellow.
Compare
http://botany.cz/cs/papaver-aurantiacum/ (http://botany.cz/cs/papaver-aurantiacum/)
Papaver aurantiacum Loisel.
syn. Papaver alpinum L. subsp. rhaeticum (Ler.) Markgraf, Papaver rhaeticum Leresche
and
http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/papaver_croceum_icelandic_poppy.htm (http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/papaver_croceum_icelandic_poppy.htm)
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/248394526_Papaver_croceum_LEDEB._a_rare_example_of_an_alien_species_in_alpine_environments_of_the_Upper_Engadine_Switzerland (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/248394526_Papaver_croceum_LEDEB._a_rare_example_of_an_alien_species_in_alpine_environments_of_the_Upper_Engadine_Switzerland)
Papaver croceum Ledeb., Papaver nudicaule of the gardens