Meconella
Meconella | |
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Meconella denticulata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Papaveraceae |
Subfamily: | Papaveroideae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Meconella Nutt. |
Type species | |
Meconella oregana |
Meconella is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family. They are known generally as fairypoppies.
Species[]
There are about 3 species:[1]
Image | Name | Distribution |
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– California fairypoppy | around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills | |
Meconella denticulata – smallflower fairypoppy | from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges | |
Meconella oregana – white fairypoppy | Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. |
A fourth species, ,[2] is sometimes treated as [3] or .[4]
The species are endemic from British Columbia, Canada south to California.
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Categories:
- Papaveroideae
- Papaveraceae genera
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall
- Ranunculales stubs