It wasn’t understood at the time, but Papaver rhoeas seeds can live in the ground for as many as eighty years and spring back to life when the surrounding soil is disturbed.

It wasn’t understood at the time, but Papaver rhoeas seeds can live in the ground for as many as eighty years and spring back to life when the surrounding soil is disturbed.

Seeds, seedheads, pods and fruits have their own astounding beauty that sometimes even surpasses that of their flowers. One example, shown here, is the seed pod of annual corn, or Flanders poppy, ...

Flower strips, seed mixtures, and wild by design. We want to help bees and other vital pollinators, which are in decline all ...

The poppy referred to by McCrae is known today as the corn poppy or Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas), a common flower native to Europe, Trinklein says. Its seeds often lie dormant for years and ...

Flanders Poppies (Papaver rhoeas) are easily grown from seed if you want to grow your own field of poppies for Remembrance Day. In temperate zones they are planted in autumn for spring flowering ...

Archaeophytes (species introduced to the UK before 1500 CE): Anthemis arvensis, Centaurea cyanus, Echium plantagineum, Glebionis segetum, Papaver rhoeas, Sinapis arvensis, Tripleurospermum inordorum.

The seeds of common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) only germinate when the soil in which they live is disturbed. Intense fighting during World War I decimated Europe’s physical environment, causing ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and spring where wildfires burned.

Papaver rhoeas, Remembrance Day poppy Photo by RICHARD LAM / PNG The opposite of hostas and rhododendrons, they are flowers we flirt with – just don’t expect a long-term relationship from them.

An heirloom seed company has researched the reason why red poppies became connected to Veterans Day and given KTAL permission to share the story with you.