Yellow Glaucian

The yellow glaucian , or horned poppy ( Glaucium flavum ) is a plant with yellow flowers belonging to the kind Glaucium and to the family of the Papavéracées, frequent on sands of the littoral the Mediterranean N, also met on the coasts Atlantique S and, in the South, at the edge of the roads or of the ways and on the slopes of medium mountains. In addition to his characteristic flowers, resembling those of the Poppy S, one recognizes it with his glaucous sheets with the many and irregular lobes, and with his long narrow fruits, similar to stems. Another name: yellow poppy of sands.

Description

Ecology and habitat

Plant bi-annual, more rarely long-lived, sometimes abundant on the Mediterranean shores (beaches and dune S), also presents on the littoral of the Atlantic and the Manche. It is a plant slightly nitrophile, which one can also find in edge of the fields or in cultivated in the past waste lands. Sometimes one meets it, in the South, on the slopes Calcaire S until approximately 800 meters of altitude.

Flowering: from April at September
Pollination: entomogame
Dissemination: barochore

General and vegetative morphology

Herbaceous plant set up and ramified, robust, with yellow latex, stem glabrescente (slightly hairy in the lower part), being able to reach 90 cm in height, but generally much lower. The Feuille S are thick, glaucous and rather pale, oblong, pennatipartites, with irregularly toothed lobes. The sheets lower, petiolate, can reach up to 30 cm. The caulinaires, smaller, are generally engainantes.

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