A genus of flowering plants in the poppy family, native to western North America, commonly known as California poppies with bright orange or yellow flowers.
Named after Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, a 19th-century Russian naturalist and physician. The Latinized genus name follows binomial nomenclature conventions used in scientific classification.
The California poppy was declared the state flower in 1903, and it's so hardy that it literally closes up and opens with the sun—a flower that tells time!
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