Papaver laevigatumM.Bieb.

WFO wfo-0000480401 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Papaver laevigatum, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 196503587
Papaver laevigatum, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196503606
Papaver laevigatum, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. c Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196503619
Papaver laevigatum, photographed by Kudaibergen Amirekul
fig. d Kudaibergen Amirekul, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38577430

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Papaver laevigatum is native: Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, North Caucasus, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bulgaria, Greece, Krym, Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine IranKazakhstanKirgizstanNorth CaucasusOmanSaudi ArabiaTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanYemenBulgariaGreeceKrymRomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Papaver laevigatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
North Caucasus NCS
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Yemen YEM
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Krym KRY
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 123 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -13.9 °C -1.6 °C 0.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.6 °C 25.8 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 264 mm 602 mm 891 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 118 mm 148 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 123 research-grade observations of Papaver laevigatum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Papaver dubium subsp. laevigatum (M.Bieb.) Kadereit
  • Papaver erosulum Jord.
  • Papaver glabellum Steven ex DC.
  • Papaver lacerum Popov
  • Papaver litwinowii Fedde ex Bornm.
  • Papaver maeoticum Klokov
  • Papaver nothum Steven ex Nyman
  • Papaver nothum Steven
  • Papaver rhodopeum Velen.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.