Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Wexford

Yellow Horned-poppy Glaucium flavum Caillichín na trá Family: Papaveraceae Flowering: June-September. Perennial. Native. Long-stalked yellow flowers with 4 petals and hairy sepals are followed by very long, sickle-shaped hairless seed capsules (to 30cm long). The over-wintering basal rosettes have fleshy grey-green leaves that are pinnate-lobed and hairy. The stem-leaves are clasping and the plant contains a yellow latex. Height 30-90cm. Scattered and decreasing round the Irish coast on cliffs, dunes and shingle beaches. Classed as Near Threatened

Yellow Horned-poppy, Glaucium flavum, Caillichín na trá