Poppy family : PAPAVERACEAE (MAGNOLIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Argemone ochroleuca Mexican Prickly Poppy Magnetic Island Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Eschscholzia californica Californian Poppy Sydney, November 2006

Fumaria bastardii Bastard's Fumitory Sydney, September 2006

Papaver paeoniflorum Peony Poppy Wyee, October 2006

Papaver nudicaule Iceland Poppies Sydney, October 2006

Papaver rhoeas Flanders Poppy Magnetic Island Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson

We know of no species of Australian Butterfly or Moth species the caterpillars of which feed on plants in PAPAVERACEAE.

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 6 October 2021)