Meconella

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Meconella
Meconelladenticulata.jpg
Meconella denticulata
Scientific classification e
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
– California fairypoppy around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills
Meconelladenticulata.jpg 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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