Papaver

Accepted species 64 Documented here 13 Family Papaveraceae

Accepted species 64 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Papaver rhoeas L. 3,357 documented
Papaver dubium L. 956 documented
Papaver somniferum L. 779 documented
Papaver orientale L. 91 documented
Papaver atlanticum (Ball) Coss. 41 documented
Papaver pinnatifidum Moris 17 documented
Papaver umbonatum Boiss. 10 documented
Papaver albiflorum (Elkan) Pacz. 6 documented
Papaver armeniacum (L.) DC. 4 documented
Papaver laevigatum M.Bieb. 4 documented
Papaver purpureomarginatum Kadereit 4 documented
Papaver gracile Aucher ex Boiss. 3 documented
Papaver lecoqii Lamotte 3 documented
Papaver chelidoniifolium Boiss. & Buhse 2 below the evidence gate
Papaver commutatum Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Trautv. 2 below the evidence gate
Papaver carmeli Feinbrun 1 below the evidence gate
Papaver rupifragum Boiss. & Reut. 1 below the evidence gate
Papaver × boissierianum Fedde 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × bourgeauanum Fedde 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × godronii Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × intercedens Kubát 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × pseudotrilobum (Wein) Fedde 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × strigosum (Boenn.) Schur 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × trilobum Wallr. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver × tuberculatum V.I.Dorof. & Murtaz. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver acrochaetum Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver arachnoideum Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver arenarium M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver bracteatum Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver clavatum Boiss. & Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver confine Jord. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver curviscapum Nábelek 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver cyprium (Chrtek & B.Slavík) M.V.Agab., Christodoulou & Hand 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver decaisnei Hochst. & Steud. ex Elkan 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver gabrielianae M.V.Agab. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver glabrum Royle 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver glaucum Boiss. & Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver gorgoneum Cout. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver gorovanicum M.V.Agab. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver humile Fedde 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver kachroianum Tabinda, Dar & Naqshi 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver lateritium K.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver libanoticum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver lisae N.Busch 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver macrostomum Boiss. & A.Huet 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver maireii Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver malviflorum Doum. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver maschukense Mikheev 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver pamporicum Tabinda, Dar & Naqshi 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver paphium M.V.Agab., Christodoulou & Hand 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver pasquieri Dubuis & Faurel 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver persicum Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver pilosum Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver postii Fedde 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver rechingeri Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver roseolum M.V.Agab. & Fragman 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver schelkovnikovii N.Busch 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver setiferum Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver setigerum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver sjunicicum M.V.Agab. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver stewartianum Jajri & Qaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver talyshense Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver tenuifolium Boiss. & Hohen. 0 below the evidence gate
Papaver zangesurum Mikheev 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.