Spring is usually peak poppy season for Southern California, but limited winter showers dampened the flower species’ chances.

Each spring, the reserve becomes a breathtaking spectacle as the state's official flower, the California poppy, bursts into ...

California poppies grow in a lot on Laurel Street across from London Nelson Community Center and Laurel Park. On March 2, ...

Its full name, Flanders Field American Cemetery And ... Commission’s cemetery in the world. The flower that you’ll encounter here is the red poppy (aka corn poppy or Papaver rhoeas), which ...

These too are of a burning color — not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden ...

Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ...

But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol ... Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice made ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung ... “Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by ...

The California Golden Poppy adds a rich luster to the countryside each spring and then disappears for another year.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, one of Southern California’s most popular spots for wildflower blooms, received only a third of an inch of rain on Feb. 13, after the longest dry spell – 334 days – ...