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Argemone mexicana; Mexican Prickly Poppy   

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Argemone mexicana
Argemone mexicana
Mexican Prickly Poppy
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0116 2731 (2016-01-17)

Copyright © 2016 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Mar 21, 2007
  • latitude 27.13330   longitude 107.56870     View on Google Maps.
  • location   km 29, old unpaved Quirare to La Bufa swithback road between Quirare & La Bufa near El Puente Rancho Las Naranjas, 3.8 miles S of Quirare, 4.9 miles N of La Bufa bridge, Barranca Batopilas (Mcp. Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico)
  • family Papaveraceae
  • plant community   Oak woodland transition to tropical deciduious scrub at 5800' (1770m) elev.
  • notes   weedy plant at roadside in steeply sloping volcanic rhyolite tuff rubble at mid canyon. Sites along the old gravel switchback road have now been largely destroyed by a new paved highway to Batopilas that also greatly restricts access to many former rich roadside collecting sites in the canyon.
  • keywords: SMOc, Barranca Batopilas
  • contributor's ID #  SMOc 196
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Mexican Prickly Poppy, Cardo Santo (photographer)
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