{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Distinguish|Agrimonia}} {{Redirect|Prickly Poppy|another plant known by this name|Papaver argemone}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Argemone.jpg | image_caption = ''Argemone subfusiformis'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Argemone | authority = L.<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?945 |title=Genus: ''Argemone'' L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2001-11-28 |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Argemone''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae commonly known as '''prickly poppies'''.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id= 18902 |taxon=''Argemone'' |accessdate=2010-10-28}}</ref> There are about 32 species native to the Americas and Hawaii.<ref name=fna>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=102532 ''Argemone''.] Flora of North America.</ref> The generic name originated as ἀργεμώνη in Greek and was applied by Dioscorides to a poppy-like plant used to treat cataracts.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=D. |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-86645-3 |year=2008 |page=55}}</ref><ref>ἄργεμον (''argemon'') means "cataract" in Greek. See {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names |volume=I: A-C |year=2000 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-2675-2 |page=191}}</ref>
==Selected species== {{div col|colwidth=28em}} *''Argemone aenea'' <small>G.B. Ownbey</small> – golden prickly poppy *''Argemone albiflora'' <small>Hornem</small> – bluestem prickly poppy **''Argemone albiflora subsp. albiflora'' **''Argemone albiflora subsp. texana'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> *''Argemone arizonica'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> – Arizona prickly poppy *''Argemone aurantiaca'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> – Texas prickly poppy *''Argemone chisosensis'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> – Chisos Mountain prickly poppy *''Argemone corymbosa'' <small>Greene</small> – Mojave prickly poppy **''Argemone corymbosa subsp. arenicola'' **''Argemone corymbosa subsp. corymbosa'' *''Argemone glauca'' <small>(Nutt. ex Prain) Pope</small> – ''pua kala'' (Hawaii)<ref name="Bishop">{{cite web |url=http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/resultsdetailed.asp?search=pua_kala |title=pua kala, kala, naule, pokalakala |publisher=Bernice P. Bishop Museum |work=Hawaii Ethnobotany Online Database |access-date=2009-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702123734/http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/resultsdetailed.asp?search=pua_kala |archive-date=2007-07-02}}</ref> **''Argemone glauca'' var. ''decipiens'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> **''Argemone glauca'' var. ''glauca'' <small>(Nutt. ex Prain) Pope</small> *''Argemone gracilenta'' <small>Greene</small> – Sonoran prickly poppy *''Argemone hispida'' <small>A.Gray</small> – rough prickly poppy *''Argemone mexicana'' <small>L.</small> – Mexican prickly poppy *''Argemone munita'' <small>Durand & Hilg.</small> – flat-bud prickly poppy *''Argemone ochroleuca'' <small>Sweet</small> – pale Mexican prickly poppy *''Argemone pinnatisecta'' <small>(G.B.Ownbey) S.D.Cerv. & C.D.Bailey</small> *''Argemone platyceras'' <small>Link & Otto</small> – chicalote *''Argemone pleiacantha'' <small>Greene</small> – southwestern prickly poppy **''Argemone pleiacantha subsp. ambigua'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small> **''Argemone pleiacantha subsp. pleiacantha'' *''Argemone polyanthemos'' <small>(Fedde) G.B.Ownbey</small> – crested prickly poppy *''Argemone sanguinea'' <small>Greene</small> – red prickly poppy *''Argemone squarrosa'' <small>Greene</small> – hedgehog prickly poppy **''Argemone squarrosa subsp. glabrata'' **''Argemone squarrosa subsp. squarrosa'' *''Argemone subfusiformis'' <small>G.B.Ownbey</small><ref name="ITIS"/><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?945 |title=GRIN Species Records of ''Argemone'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> {{div col end}}
===Formerly placed here=== *''Papaver armeniacum'' <small>(L.) DC.</small> (as ''A. armeniaca'' <small>L.</small>)<ref name="GRINSpecies"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5547,5550 Jepson Manual Treatment]
==Further reading== *{{cite book |author=Pink, A. |title=Gardening for the Million. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11892 |year=2004 |publisher=Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation}}
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Category:Argemone Category:Papaveraceae genera
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