''Eschscholzia elegans'' is a relative of the California poppy that occurs on Guadalupe and

Cedros Cedros, Portuguese and Spanish for ''cedars'', may refer to the following places: Honduras * Cedros, Francisco Morazán, a municipality in the Department of Francisco Morazán Mexico *Cedros Island, an island in the State of Baja California Portu ...

islands, off the coast of the Baja California peninsula. Although many of the specimens given its name are actually ''

Eschscholzia ramosa ''Eschscholzia ramosa'' is a species of poppy known by the common name Channel Islands poppy, or simply island poppy. The plant is endemic to the Channel Islands of California off the Southern California coast (United States), and to Guadalupe ...

'', its

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and a few other specimens have very different seeds, and may be more closely related to '' Eschscholzia palmeri''.Eschscholzia elegans E. Greene

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Holotype of Eschscholzia elegans Greene
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