poppy family

noun

1. the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.

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Members of the poppy family, Papaveraceae, span the globe from the Arctic to the tropics, but their flowers share a common quality.

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These members of the poppy family are hardy and easy to grow, and feature colorful spurred flowers held above fernlike foliage.

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The tree-poppy is the only truly woody plant in the poppy family.

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But then, proximity to the poppy family started him thinking.

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Now this Sanguinaria belongs to the Papaveraceae—the poppy family.'

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