Genus of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae
Meconella is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family. They are known generally as fairypoppies.
Species
There are about 3 species:[1]
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Distribution
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Meconella californica – California fairypoppy |
around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills
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Meconella denticulata – smallflower fairypoppy |
from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges
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Meconella oregana – white fairypoppy |
Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia.
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A fourth species, Meconella linearis,[2] is sometimes treated as Platystigma linearis[3] or Hesperomecon linearis.[4]
The species are endemic from British Columbia, Canada south to California.
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