Stylomecon
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Stylomecon is a genus of annual plant in the family
Papaveraceae
. It has only one species, Stylomecon heterophylla, the Wind Poppy, which is native to California and north western Mexico.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
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...
. It has only one species, Stylomecon heterophylla, the Wind Poppy, which is native to California and north western Mexico.