Nodding Little Poppy is an annual, prostrate to erect,
almost hairless herb, 5-30 cm long. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils or
at branch-ends, in 2-4-flowered cyme, carried on 1-4 cm long
flower-cluster-stalk. Flowers are 8-12 mm across, yellow; flower-stalk
0.5-1.2 cm long; involucral bracts linear, 5-8 mm long. Sepals are
ovate, almost blunt to pointed, 2-2.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, entire
or shallowly cut at the margin. Outer petal is rhomboid, elliptic or
somewhat trilobed to trilobed, 8-12 mm long, 5-7 mm broad; inner 2
petals are deeply 3 lobed, 6-8 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, middle lobe
fringed at the margin, spoon-shaped, outer lobes elliptic-oblong.
Stamens are opposite the petals, 5-6 mm long; anthers linear to oblong.
Leaves are all at the base, 2-3-pinnately cut, 3-10 cm long, with
somewhat sheathing leaf base; ultimate segments linear to bristly, 2-6
mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad. Fruit is linear or linear oblong, deflexed,
3-7 cm long, 3-5 mm broad. Nodding Little Poppy is native to
Mediterranean to Central Asia and W Himalaya, Arabian Peninsula.
Flowering: March-April.
Identification credit: Nidhan Singh, Naina Palria
Photographed in Hisar, Haryana.
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