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Macleaya cordata |
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| Synonym(s) |
Bocconia cordata |
| Common name |
plume poppy |
| Family |
papaveraceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z3-10) |
| Flowers |
white, summer |
| Size |
6-8 ft |
| Light |
full sun |
| Cultural notes |
average garden soil |
Needs plenty of space to spread its plumes of tiny pink or whitish-buff flowers. The bronze lobed leaves are 8 inch wide and grey-white on the undersides.
Keep well watered until established.
The sap of this plant is a potent orange stain. I find this out every year, because the wandering habits of this species prompt me to pull stalks that come up where I want other things to grow. Not a problem (the wandering, or the stain), but worth knowing up front.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: side garden About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| sandra lee | Aug 18, 2006 | OMG!!! I had this 'mystery' plant growing in my yard...That is it!!!! You had it here---awesome picture of it helped me out....Thank you for an awesome site!!! |
| johanna moore | Jul 20, 2008 | just saw this plant in fieldstone gardens in vassalboro maine for open farm day. they had an area at one end of their garden that had a complete wall of these. the buzz of the bees as you walked through was amazzzzzing. they loved it as much as I did. I'm saving up some scheckles and going back to get some for my garden. the great wall of plume poppies. built in a few years rather than a few hundred. |
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