California Poppy
The botanical name, Eschsholtzia California,
was given by Adelbert Von Chamisso, a naturalist and
member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, who dropped
anchor in San Francisco in 1816 in a bay surrounded
by hills of the golden flowers.
Also sometimes known as the flame flower,
la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the poppy
grows wild throughout California. It became the state
flower in 1903. Every year April 6 is California Poppy
Day.
California Indians cherished the poppy
as both a source of food and for the oil extracted from
the plant. |
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