California Poppy

Gold Poppy. This California wild flower with its bright orange 2 inch wide cup shaped flowers, bloom above lacy blue-green foliage in the early spring. Found growing abundantly throughout the lower elevations of California, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada, it is a beautiful and worthwhile medicinal plant to naturalize in your garden. Highly regarded as an effective nervine used for anxiety, as a sedative, and in higher doses can aid with pain relief. An effective and gentle remedy for calming agitated children. It is often used in combination with other nervines, such as Passion Flower, Valerian, or Skullcap. Easy to grow and will tend to naturalize in a garden situation. Requires full sun and preferably a well drained site. Perennial. Hardy to Zones 5-10