Corn Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
Corn Poppy is a hardy, self-seeding annual that bears single, red flowers in early summer.
Jefferson observed the "lesser" or "dwarf" poppy at Shadwell in 1767, and recorded the planting of "Papaver Rhoeas flor. plen. double poppy" in a Monticello oval flower bed in 1807. The Shadwell poppies were probably similar to the single, red-flowering forms shown here. This a horticultural variety of the common European field poppy, which immortalized in Flanders during World War I.