Herbarium JCB

Argemone mexicana L.

Family : PAPAVERACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Papaveraceae
Species : Argemone mexicana
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Argemone mexicana L.
Common name : Mexican Poppy, Prickly Poppy
Vernacular name : Swarnaksheeri (San.); Pila-Dhatura (Hin.); Arasina dhatura, Dhaturi gida (Kan.)
Collection Nos : CJS 12381, KFP 7227
Collector(s) Name : K.P.Sreenath & B.R.Ramesh
Key identification features : Armed herb to almost an undershrub with yellow latex and dissected leaves which have lobes ending in spines. Flowers are 3 to 5 cm across, terminal, solitary and yellow in colour, sometimes creamish-white also. Fruit is a prickly capsule, oblong, with many black seeds.
Habit : Herb
Native : West Indies
Comments : Grows in wastelands
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Hosdurga (Chitradurga)
Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere