Papaver somniferum subsp. somniferum

Native to:

Algeria, France, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Cambodia, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colorado, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hainan, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Illinois, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krym, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Myanmar, Nepal, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South Australia, South European Russi, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tasmania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tristan da Cunha, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

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Kew Backbone Distributions

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