Kingdom Plantae Family Papaveraceae Scientific name Eschscholzia rhombipetala Rank Species | Order Ranunculales Genus Eschscholzia Higher classification Eschscholzia | |
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Similar Eschscholzia hypecoides, Eschscholzia ramosa, Eschscholzia, Eschscholzia lemmonii, Eschscholzia parishii | ||
Eschscholzia rhombipetala, the diamond-petaled California poppy, is endemic to California.
It a relative of the California poppy, with diminutive flowers.
Once thought extinct, it was rediscovered in the 1990s in the northern Carrizo Plain of the Southern Interior California Coast Ranges in San Luis Obispo County; and in a location at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Alameda County in the East San Francisco Bay Area.
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