Argemone

Argemone mexicana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ranunculales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Papaveraceae
Subfamilia: Papaveroideae
Tribus: Papavereae
Genus: Argemone
Species: A.  aenea – A. albiflora – A. arida – A. arizonica – A. aurantiaca – A. brevicornuta – A. burkartii – A. chisosensis – A. corymbosa – A. crassifolia – A. echinata – A. fruticosa – A. glabrata – A. glauca – A. grandiflora – A. hispida – A. hunnemannii – A. mexicana – A. munita – A. ochroleuca – A. parva – A. pinnatisecta – A. platyceras – A. pleiacantha – A. polyanthemos – A. rosea – A. sanguinea – A. squarrosa – A. subalpina – A. subfusiformis – A. subinermis – A. subintegrifolia – A. superba – A. turnerae
Nothospecies: A. × hybrida

Name

Argemone L., Sp. Pl. 1: 503 (1753).

• Type species: Argemone mexicana L.

Note:

The name Argemone intermedia Sweet (Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 1830) is encountered in several regional and local floras but is of uncertain application.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: America Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Colorado, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Paraguay, Peru, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Wyoming Introduced into: Angola, Arkansas, Aruba, Ascension, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bermuda, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Great Britain, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Michigan, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Ontario, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 503. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ownbey, G.B. (1958) Monograph of the genus Argemone for North America and the West Indies. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 21(1): 1–159.
• Ownbey, G.B in
• eFloras 2008. Argemone in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
• Schwarzbach, A.E. and J.W. Kadereit (1999) Phylogeny of prickly poppies, Argemone (Papaveraceae), and the evolution of morphological and alkaloid characters based on ITS rDNA sequence variation. Plant Systematics and Evolution 218: 257–279.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Argemone in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 February 13. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2025. 13. Published online. Accessed: February 2025. Reference page.
• Hassler, M. 2025. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Argemone. Accessed: 13 February 2025.
• Tropicos.org 2025. Argemone. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 13 February 2025. Reference page.
  • Find all Wikispecies pages which cite this reference.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Stachelmohn
English: Prickly poppies
suomi: Piikkiunikot
polski: Argemon
русский: Аргемона
svenska: Taggvallmosläktet
中文: 刺罂粟属