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Eschscholzia
lemmonii
E. Greene
Lemmon’s poppy
 Family:
Papaveraceae
Habit:
Annual 5 to 30 cm., orange to deep yellow flowers, glabrous to
sparsely hairy.
Distribution:
Open grasslands in the southern
Sierra Nevada foothills and outer south coast ranges of
California.
Seed unit:
Free seed.
Seed:
1 to 1.3 mm. wide, net-like ridges, brown, round.
Embryo:
Small, basal embryo; copious endosperm.
 Purity
instructions:
Pure seed definition:
AOSA:
PSU#1 - Seed, with or without seed coat. Piece of broken
seed, with or without seed coat, larger than one-half the
original size.
Average pure
seed units per gram:
1,768 seeds per gram (based on AOSA pure seed units only from
one sample received for testing from 2001).
Range of
percent pure seed:
97%
Range of
percent inert:
1%
Description
of inert:
Plant material, dirt.
Planting
instructions:
400 seeds, TB, 10 days @ 15°C; for fresh and dormant seed, 15°C
and GA3 or KNO3 recommended.
References:
(link
to main reference page)
Hickman, J.C., Ed. 1993. p. 814.
Ransom Seed Laboratory |
