California Poppy
The California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is a popular garden flower of the poppy family, Papaveraceae. It is native to California and the southwestern United States, and has naturalized in Australia, Chile, and South Africa. It was named by the German romantic poet and explorer Adelbert von Chamisso after his friend and colleague on the Otto von Kotzebue scientific expedition to California in the early 19th century, the Baltic German Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.
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The California poppy and its relatives
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