Macleaya cordata (Willd.) R.Br.

Plume poppy (en), Bocconie cordée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Papaveraceae > Macleaya

Characteristics

Herbs, erect, basally lignified, yellow lactiferous. Stems green, glaucous, 1-4 m, smooth, branched above in inflorescence. Leaves: petiole 1-12 cm, adaxially shallowly channeled; blade glaucous abaxially, gray-green adaxially, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 5-27 × 5-25 cm, usually 7-or 9-parted or lobed, apex acute, acuminate, obtuse, or rounded; lobes semicircular, quadrate, deltoid, or orbicular, margin undulate, incised, or serrate to serrulate, abaxially sparsely villous, adaxially glabrous, basal veins usually 5, lateral veins 2 pairs, rarely 3, veinlets netted. Panicles large, terminal and axillary, multiflorous, 15-40 cm; bracts narrowly lanceolate. Pedicel 2-7 mm. Flower buds almost white, clavate, ca. 10 mm. Sepals yellowish white, obovate-oblong, cymbiform, ca. 10 mm. Stamens 24-30; filaments ca. 5 mm; anthers linear, ca. equal to filaments. Ovary obovoid to narrowly obovoid, 2-4 mm, base attenuate, apex rounded; styles ca. 1 mm; stigmas 2-lobed, decurrent to styles. Capsule narrowly obovoid or oblanceolate, 1.3-3 cm × 5-7 mm, glabrous, base attenuate, apex rounded or obtuse. Seeds 4-6(-8), ovoid, 1.5-2 mm, attached bilaterally, sessile, seed coat with regular alveolate foveolae, narrowly carunculate. Fl. and fr. Jun-Nov. 2n = 10, 20*.
More
Plants to 25 dm. Stems simple or branching distally. Leaves 10-30 cm long and wide; petiole 2-15(-20) cm; blade broadly ovate-cordate, 7-9-lobed; margins irregularly and coarsely toothed; abaxial surface usually whitish and densely short-pubescent, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences to 30 cm or more. Flowers: pedicels 4-10 mm; sepals white to cream colored, spatulate, 5-10 mm; style to ca. 1 mm. Capsules oblanceoloid, strongly compressed, 15-20 mm, glabrous. Seeds dark brown, reticulate. 2 n = 20.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 1.5
Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 2.5
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Grassy places, open meadows and the grassy floors of Cryptomeria plantations.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 3-8

Usage

Uses alkaloid dye environmental use experimental purposes insecticide medicinal ornamental
Edible -
Therapeutic use Abscess (unspecified), Analgesic (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Circulation (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Hookworms (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Osteomyelitis (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Arthralgia (unspecified), Syphilis (unspecified), Alexiteric (unspecified), Caries (unspecified), Insecticide (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Carcinoma (unspecified), Polyp (unspecified), Wart (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Macleaya cordata leaf picture by Muhammad IDRIS (cc-by-sa)
Macleaya cordata leaf picture by Diana Kategiannis (cc-by-sa)
Macleaya cordata leaf picture by Diana Kategiannis (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Macleaya cordata flower picture by Heidi Noack (cc-by-sa)
Macleaya cordata flower picture by Diana Kategiannis (cc-by-sa)
Macleaya cordata flower picture by josephine de saint seine (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Macleaya cordata world distribution map, present in Canada, China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:673258-1
WFO ID wfo-0000448644
COL ID 3WZNV
BDTFX ID 82101
INPN ID 610618
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Marzaria cordata Bocconia cordata Macleaya yedoensis Bocconia japonica Bocconia jedoensis Bocconia cordata var. thunbergii Macleaya cordata var. yedoensis Macleaya cordata