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§1 Plant

Eschscholzia californica Cham. ssp. californica

vernacular California poppy — subspecies · Papaveraceae


USDA
ESCAC
GBIF
7226681
Rank
subspecies
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica ssp. californica)
Platephotograph · pronghornranch67CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Papaveraceae Juss.
Genus
Eschscholzia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 138 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 136 Introduced · 2 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 138 counties across 24 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 N
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N
California view state ↗ 53 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N
Hawaii view state ↗ 2 I
Idaho view state ↗ 5 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 6 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N
Oregon view state ↗ 18 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N
Utah view state ↗ 2 N
Washington view state ↗ 13 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ESCAC ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7226681 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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