''Dicranostigma'', also known as the eastern horned poppies, is a

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in the poppy

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Papaveraceae, the species of which are native to the

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and western

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. Although resembling the true horned poppies of ''

Glaucium ''Glaucium'' (horned poppy) is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia. The species commonly occur in sal ...

'', they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns". A number of the species have only been recently published. The annual '' Dicranostigma erectum'' and biennial/perennial '' Dicranostigma lactucoides'' ("Himalayan horned poppy") are regularly cultivated.

References

* Christopher Grey-Wilson, ''Poppies'' (Portland: Timber Press, 2000) pp. 51–53 Papaveroideae Papaveraceae genera Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Ranunculales-stub