Long headed Poppy

At last! After cold winds my new idea of wildflowers in the garden looked like a bunch of weeds and I was considering digging it all up but today the first flower appeared!! (it’s a start)

Long-headed poppy an annual or overwintering weed of arable land especially cornfields and of waste places and roadsides. It has a similar distribution to the common poppy but extends further north and is more frequent in Wales. The distribution on upland areas is limited by the lack of cultivated land but it has been recorded at 1,400 ft. It is found on light, dry, sandy and gravely soils but also flourishes on heavy land. The plant can withstand drought and occurs in quite arid areas. It was considered to be comparatively rare in the early 20th century but 50 years later it had become universally common.

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