Data Photographed date: The end of March, 1999 Photographed place: Mt. Diablo State Park, CA

California poppis are ones of the representative flowers, which tells spring is coming in California. They are naturalized anywhere along the coast, in mountains and residential districts, and bloom at the end of the winter rainy season.
There are some decorative breedings with red or white flowers, however most of the natural spieces are orange or bright yellow.
The picture above was taken when I was walking on the trais in Mt. Diablo State Park, however I've heard that we can see them all over as if an orange carpet in the California Poppy reserve in Antelope Valley (near Los Angeles).
Though California poppies belong to "papaveraceae", they have lots of different features from general poppies. So, we can not obtain opium from them.

Here is how to grow California Poppy.

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