PAPAVERACEAE, Poppy Family

Herbs, sometimes with milky juice; leaves alternate or basal, rarely opposite; flowers bypogynous, bisporangiate; sepals 2 or 3, minute or early deciduous; corolla regular (or each whorl regular); petals 4 to many or rarely none, separate; stamens several to many; carpels 2 to many, united, stigmas as many; ovary l-Ioculed or occasionally 2-loculed as result of a false septum; placentae parietal; ovules several to many; fruit a capsule.

Papaveraceae