Meconopsis robusta - Robust Yellow Poppy

Robust Yellow Poppy is a herb with stems 1-2 m long, leafy, stout, fistular, sparsely clothed with patent rusty or yellowish-brown 5-6 mm long bristles or with their persistent bases. Leaves are imperfectly 1-2-pinnately cut to divided, often uppermost entire, sparsely bristly; segments ovate or ovate-oblong, pointed or blunt at tip; basal leaves on 1-1.5 cm long leaf-stalks; upper ones stalkless. Flowers are solitary on 5-20 cm long flower-stalks, in leaf-axils or at branch-ends, in leafy racemes. Sepals are broadly ovate-oblong, 1.5-2 cm long, bristly. Petals are 4, obovate, yellow to sulphur yellow. Filaments are 1-1.5 cm long, thread-like. Styles are 2-10 mm long. Capsules are obovoid-oblong or ellipsoid, splitting by 6-9 valves, 2-3 cm long. Robust Yellow Poppy is endemic to Garhwal Himalayas, at altitudes of 2400-4000 m. Flowering: July-October.