Dicranostigma, also known as the eastern horned poppies, is a genus in the poppy family

Family (biology)

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 Papaveraceae

Papaveraceae

Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of 44 genera and approximately 770 species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan, occurring in temperate and subtropical climates, but almost unknown in the tropics...

, the species of which are native to the Himalaya and western China

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. Although resembling the true horned poppies of Glaucium

Glaucium

Glaucium is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia...

, they have stigmas with two lobes and fruit with only traces of the "horns".

A number of the species have only been recently published.

The annual Dicranostigma erectum and biennial/perennial Dicranostigma lactucoides ("Himalayan horned poppy") are regularly cultivated.