# Stylophorum

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Stylophorum diphyllum - woodland poppy - desc-flower open.jpg
| image_caption = ''Stylophorum diphyllum'' ([type species](/source/type_species))
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Stylophorum
| authority = [Nutt.](/source/Thomas_Nuttall)
| type_species =''[Stylophorum diphyllum](/source/Stylophorum_diphyllum)''
}}

'''''Stylophorum''''' ('''[celandine](/source/Chelidonium)-poppy''') is a [genus](/source/genus) of three [species](/source/species) of [herbaceous](/source/herbaceous_plant) [perennial](/source/perennial_plant) [plants](/source/flowering_plant) native to [woodland](/source/woodland) in eastern [North America](/source/North_America) and [China](/source/China).

[Stem](/source/Plant_stem)s are bristly, and [leaves](/source/leaf) are lobed and have wavy edges.

[Flower](/source/Flower)s are yellow and have four petals and an unusually long [style](/source/Gynoecium), for which the genus is named. Several may be found on each stem.

The closely related ''[Hylomecon vernalis](/source/Hylomecon_vernalis)'' has only one flower on each stem, and the greater celandine (''[Chelidonium majus](/source/Chelidonium_majus)'') has branched stems and no [bract](/source/bract)s or bracteoles.

==Species==
There are three species:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Image !! Name!!  Distribution
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|120px ||''[Stylophorum diphyllum](/source/Stylophorum_diphyllum)'' ||eastern North America
|-
|120px || ''[Stylophorum lasiocarpum](/source/Stylophorum_lasiocarpum)''  ||central and eastern China
|-
| ||''[Stylophorum sutchuenense](/source/Stylophorum_sutchuenense)'' ||western China
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Christopher Grey-Wilson, ''Poppies'' (Portland: Timber Press, 2000) {{ISBN|0-88192-503-9}} pp. 42–44

==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Stylophorum|''Stylophorum''}}
*{{Wikispecies-inline|Stylophorum|''Stylophorum''}}
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Category:Papaveroideae
Category:Papaveraceae genera

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