Icelandic poppy, Papaver nudicaule, Close-up detail of a single orange flower with yellow stamen against a green leafy background.

Icelandic poppy, Papaver nudicaule, Close cropped view of yellow flower with yellow stamens against blue sky,

Icelandic poppy, Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles', Side view of one opening flower with crinked red petals with yellow centres, pushing off its bud casing, on hairy stalk, Against pale blue sky.

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, Very close view of centre of a pink flower showing the stamens and ridged green stigma with granules of pollen on it.

Field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, Side view of one opening red flower pushing off its bud casing, on hairy curved stalk, Against blue sky.

Field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, Side view of one open red flower on hairy curved stalk, Against pale blue sky.

Field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, Side view of one half open red flower on spindly, hairy, bendy stalk with leaves and bud, Against blue sky.

Shirley poppy, Papaver rhoeas Shirley series, Front view of one white flower with black stamens in a curved stem and soft focus leaves behind, Against pale blue sky.

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, Front view of pink flower with dark splodges held above soft focus pale blue green foliage.

Purple viper's bugloss, Echium plantagineum with pink Lathyrus tingitanus, Tangier pea, red opium poppy growing in a meadow in La Gomera in the Canary Islands.

Californian poppy, Eschscholzia californica, Front view of one fully open orange flower showing stamens, coming out of soft focus blue background.

Poppy, Oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, Close view of the centre of a red flower showing the stamens and the seedhead forming.