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Papaver armeniacum (L.) DC.

Armenian Poppy

Papaveraceae · North Caucasus, Transcaucasus +3

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-20.7°C
Record low -28.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
20°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,060mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
13–40DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Papaver armeniacum, the Armenian poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the Caucasus region. It produces the benzylisoquinoline alkaloid armepavine (6 7 methoxy 1 (4' hydroxy benzyl) 1234 tetrahydro isoquinoline).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Papaver armeniacum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Papaver

Papaver is a genus of 70–100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Papaver", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (723 mm of 1,005 mm) falls in April to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 10.1 °C against a yearly mean of 3.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Rain

1,005 mm in the median year at the habitat, 723 mm of it April to October. Wettest month June at 134 mm, driest month January at 45 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 642 mm to 1,794 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,060 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,005 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 13 to 40 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 10, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -20.7 °C, the absolute minimum -28.7 °C, 8,151 frost nights in 44 years, 185.3 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 26.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -12.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -16.6 °C to -8.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 19.5 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -20.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 62% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -181 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Papaver armeniacum through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 20 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -12.4 °C; 1,005 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°frost26.0° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-28.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 13–40RH 59–62%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 120 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-4 / -9–0-3 / -7–11 / -4–57 / 2–1112 / 7–1617 / 12–2120 / 16–2419 / 15–2416 / 12–2010 / 6–153 / -1–7-2 / -6–2
Night °C-12 / -17–-9-12 / -16–-9-8 / -12–-5-2 / -6–12 / -2–67 / 3–1010 / 7–1410 / 6–147 / 2–91 / -3–4-5 / -10–-2-10 / -15–-7
Rain mm45 / 27–13352 / 35–11372 / 51–146108 / 75–164130 / 84–209134 / 54–245104 / 33–21295 / 21–20973 / 25–13279 / 51–13066 / 45–14947 / 26–146
DLI16 / 12–1923 / 19–2630 / 27–3336 / 32–3938 / 35–4240 / 37–4639 / 36–4635 / 32–4229 / 24–3522 / 18–2616 / 13–1913 / 10–17
RH %60 / 56–6360 / 57–6360 / 58–6261 / 58–6362 / 57–6462 / 53–6462 / 53–6561 / 52–6560 / 51–6360 / 55–6360 / 56–6259 / 56–63
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 120 grid cells holding the 182 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 946:4492 (42.675, 44.625). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -28.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -20.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 26.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 120 distinct grid cells holding 182 of the 182 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 946:4492 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 42.50_44.375, lapse-corrected -181 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2004 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNorth Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran, Iraq, Turkey · 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 marker42.477, 44.481 · in the densest population, 158 records (59% of those in range)
Kew's description“biennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 268 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 182 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 133 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 8 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 86 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 268 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: (c) Roland Godon, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Serdar Ölez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Scabiosa owerinii Scabiosa owerinii Caprifoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinEremogone blepharophylla Eremogone blepharophylla Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizGypsophila elegans Gypsophila elegans Showy baby's-breath Photo: CC0, author not statedTanacetum coccineum Tanacetum coccineum Garden pyrethrum Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаEremogone dianthoides Eremogone dianthoides Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizGentiana gelida Gentiana gelida Gentianaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Papaver 23 in the reference

Papaver aculeatum Papaver aculeatum Bristle poppy Photo: CC BY-SA, SAplantsPapaver atlanticum Papaver atlanticum Atlas poppy Photo: CC BY, Geoff MorganPapaver bracteatum Papaver bracteatum Oriental poppy Photo: CC BY, relewPapaver cambricum Papaver cambricum Welsh poppy Photo: CC0, author not statedPapaver commutatum Papaver commutatum Caucasian scarlet poppy Photo: CC0, author not stated Papaver crassifolium Papaveraceae Papaver dubium Papaver dubium Blindeyes Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaPapaver glaucum Papaver glaucum Tulip poppy Photo: CC BY, ElliotPapaver heterophyllum Papaver heterophyllum Papaveraceae Photo: CC BY, John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United…Papaver lateritium Papaver lateritium Armenian poppy Photo: Public domain, DegoejePapaver lecoqii Papaver lecoqii Yellow-juiced Poppy Photo: CC0, author not statedPapaver macrostomum Papaver macrostomum Papaveraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Papaver armenum var. pilgerianum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Papaveraceae
Described by
(L.) DC.
Native to
North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran +2
Wild records
268 in range · 133 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 42.50_44.375, lapse-corrected -181 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media 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 30 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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