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Bocconia cordata

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Identification
Bocconia cordata Willd. [family PAPAVERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for Macleaya cordata (Willdenow) R. Brown [family PAPAVERACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 3,
Names
Macleaya cordata (Willdenow) R. Brown [family PAPAVERACEAE], in D. Denham and H. Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, app., 218. 1826
Bocconia cordata Willdenow [family PAPAVERACEAE], Sp. Pl., 2(2): 841. 1799
Information
Plants to 25 dm. Stems simple or branching distally. Leaves 10-30 cm long and wide; petiole 2-15(-20) cm; blade broadly ovate-cordate, 7-9-lobed; margins irregularly and coarsely toothed; abaxial surface usually whitish and densely short-pubescent, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences to 30 cm or more. Flowers: pedicels 4-10 mm; sepals white to cream colored, spatulate, 5-10 mm; style to ca. 1 mm. Capsules oblanceoloid, strongly compressed, 15-20 mm, glabrous. Seeds dark brown, reticulate. 2n = 20.
Phenology
Flowering summer
Altitude range
0-800 m
Distribution
e Asia.USA Ala.USA Conn.USA Ill.USA Ind.USA MaineUSA Mass.USA Mich.USA N.J.USA N.Y.USA N.C.USA OhioUSA Pa.USA Va.USA W.Va.Canada Ont.Canada Que.
Discussion
A garden perennial esteemed for its vegetative features and large, plumelike inflorescence, Macleaya cordata occasionally escapes from cultivation, persisting and reproducing fairly successfully. It might be found almost anywhere in temperate North America east of the Mississippi River at elevations below 1000 m.
Native/Introduced
introduced

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