Argemone aurantiaca G.B. Ownbey  
Family: Papaveraceae
Texas Prickly-Poppy
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Gerald B. Ownbey in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Plants annual or biennial. Stems widely branching, to ca. 8 dm, prickly throughout. Leaf blades: abaxial surface sparingly to copiously prickly on and sometimes between veins, adaxial surface less so; proximal lobed 5/6 distance to midrib; distal often clasping. Inflorescences: buds oblong, body 18-25 × 14-18 mm, prickly, longest prickles sometimes branched; sepal horns angular in cross section or flattened, 8-12 mm, prickly, apical prickle indurate. Flowers 8-l2 cm broad, closely subtended by 1-2 foliaceous bracts; petals white; stamens 150 or more; filaments pale yellow; pistil 5-6-carpellate. Capsules ovoid, 40-50 × 15-25 mm (including stigma and excluding prickles); prickles herbaceous, erect or reflexed, often branched, very unequal, longest 15-35 mm. Seeds 2.5-3 mm. 2 n = 84. Flowering spring-summer; fruiting summer-fall. Fields, pastures, hills; 150-500 m (transition zone between lowlands and plateau); Tex.
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