Yellow Horned Poppy

Poppy like, papery golden petals open freely through summer. The flowers are followed by long, curved, horn like seed heads. They are a nice feature of the plant.
The deeply lobed, blue green leaves are thick and leathery, with a wax like coating. They are around 15-30cm long and form a dense rosette at the base of the plant. Yellow Horned Poppy is dry tolerant and will grow well in poor soils. It is well suited to coastal locations.
Yellow Horned Poppy is a short lived perennial that will set viable seed.
There is a poem about this particular Poppy, which grows native, along the coastline of Mediterranean Europe:
A poppy grows upon the shore,
Bursts her twin cups in summer late:
Her leaves are glaucous-green and hoar,
Her petals yellow, delicate.
She has no lovers like the red,
That dances with the noble corn:
Her blossoms on the waves are shed,
Where she stands shivering and forlorn.

Shorter Poems Robert Bridges (Britain's Poet laureate 1913-1930)

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