Papaver orientale, the Oriental poppy,[2] is a perennial flowering plant[3] native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.

[4] Oriental poppies grow a mound of leaves that are hairy and finely dissected in spring.

Seeds are sown after the potential of frost has passed, the average temperature is approximately 21 °C and when soil has thoroughly warmed.

[citation needed] Cultivars (those marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit):-[5]

Oriental Poppies, 1927 painting by Georgia O'Keeffe Media related to Papaver orientale at Wikimedia Commons