Index / Search / Papaver somniferum
§1 Plant
Papaver somniferum L.
vernacular opium poppy — species · Papaveraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Papaveraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Papaver
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 77 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 77 counties across 23 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PASO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2888439 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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