Glaucium

Glaw'si-um. Stout herbs native in regions from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and related to Argemone and Papaver .

Description
Leaves pinnately lobed, forming a basal rosette. The flowers are solitary, yellow or red, with 2 sepals and 4 petals.

How to Grow
Sow seeds outdoors in fall where winters are mild, or as soon as the ground can be worked elsewhere. The species below prefer cool weather.

Glaucium corniculatum
Horned Poppy . To 18 in. (45 cm) high. Flowering stalk usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers 2 in. (5 cm) wide, orange to red, with a black spot at the base of the petals. Europe and sw. Asia. Does not transplant well. Also sold as G. grandiflorum . Hardy annual.

Glaucium flavum
Sea Poppy ; Horned Poppy . Branching, 2-3 ft. (60-90 cm) high. Flowers solitary, long-stalked, orange-yellow, to 2 in. (5 cm) wide. Stamens numerous. Mediterranean region; naturalized in e. North America. Biennial grown as a hardy annual.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy
  Synonym: genus Glaucium

Glaucium
A Glaucium species growing on the coast of Algeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Papaveraceae Genus: Glaucium Mill.
Species
See text.

Glaucium (Horned Poppy) is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia. The species commonly occur in saline habitats, including coasts and salt pans.

List of species

• Glaucium afghanicum
• Glaucium arabicum
• Glaucium bracteatum
• Glaucium calycinum
• Glaucium caricum
• Glaucium corniculatum, Horned poppy (Sea poppy, Yellow horned poppy), native of Western Europe.
• Glaucium cuneatum
• Glaucium fischeri
• Glaucium flavum, Yellow horned poppy, native of Western Europe.
• Glaucium grandiflora, Horned poppy, native of western Mediterranean.
• Glaucium judaicum
• Glaucium leptopodum
• Glaucium luteum
• Glaucium persicum
• Glaucium phoenicum
• Glaucium pulchrum
• Glaucium refractum
• Glaucium squamigerum

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