Species profile—Argemone mexicana (prickly poppy)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Papaveraceae → Argemone mexicana (prickly poppy)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Scientific name
- Argemone mexicana L.
- Common name
- prickly poppy
- WildNet taxon ID
- 12866
- Alternate name(s)
- Mexican poppy
yellow thistle
yellow poppy
white thistle
Mexican thistle
Mexican pricklepoppy
devil's fig - Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=12866
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.