Wood Poppy, Celandine Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum (Michx.) Nutt., Naturalized Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Wood Poppy	Stylophorum diphyllum (Michx.) Nutt.	Poppy	Woodland	Spring
Other names and notes	(Celandine Poppy). The beautiful deep yellow flowers, up to 2" wide, usually appear solitary, sometimes in a small cluster. Leaves are opposite, lobed and deeply divided. There is a large solitary clump in the Garden near Guidebook station 4. The flower matures into an oval shaped bristly seed capsule.

Notes: Eloise Butler's records show that she obtained plants of this species on April 22, 1911 from both Brownsville Ohio. This plant was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time. Not known to be native to Minnesota.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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