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Meconopsis betonicifolia Franch.

Papaveraceae · China South-Central

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Meconopsis betonicifolia, photograph Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMeconopsis betonicifolia, photograph Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMeconopsis betonicifolia, photograph ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMeconopsis betonicifolia, photograph d’Apreval, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMeconopsis betonicifolia, photograph Llorenzi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMeconopsis betonicifolia, photograph Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Meconopsis betonicifolia (syn. Meconopsis baileyi), the Himalayan blue poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It was first formally named for western science in 1912 by the British officer Lt. Col. Frederick Marshman Bailey.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Meconopsis betonicifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 28 of the 32 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3603883 (Cathcartia betonicifolia (Franch.) Prain, 112 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker26.634, 99.719 · in the densest population, 31 records (97% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 32 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 24 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. 37 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 28 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3603883 (Cathcartia betonicifolia (Franch.) Prain): Kew's file holds it as Cathcartia betonicifolia (Franch.) Prain (synonym under Meconopsis betonicifolia Franch.); 112 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 32 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; d’Apreval, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Llorenzi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Meconopsis 31 in the reference

Meconopsis aculeata Meconopsis aculeata Thorny satin poppy Photo: CC0, author not statedMeconopsis baileyi Meconopsis baileyi Papaveraceae Photo: CC BY, 王天明 Meconopsis × cookei Papaveraceae Meconopsis delavayi Papaveraceae Meconopsis dhwojii Papaveraceae Meconopsis discigera Papaveraceae Meconopsis gakyidiana Meconopsis gakyidiana Papaveraceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossMeconopsis grandis Meconopsis grandis Blue Poppy Photo: CC BY, Jiao Sun (孙娇)Meconopsis henrici Meconopsis henrici Papaveraceae Photo: CC BY, Wang.QGMeconopsis horridula Meconopsis horridula Prickly blue-poppy Photo: CC0, author not stated Meconopsis impedita Papaveraceae Meconopsis integrifolia Meconopsis integrifolia Farrer's lampshade-poppy Photo: CC BY, Morten Ross all 32 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Papaver betonicifolium; Cathcartia betonicifolia; Meconopsis betonicifolia f. franchetii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Papaveraceae
Described by
Franch.
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
32 in range · 24 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Meconopsis betonicifolia Franch. (plant_name_id 2502572), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 112 records of GBIF's key 3603883, Cathcartia betonicifolia (Franch.) Prain (Kew's file holds it as Cathcartia betonicifolia (Franch.) Prain (synonym under Meconopsis betonicifolia Franch.)): the GBIF download; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 673278-1, POWO 673278-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 17 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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