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This Latin descriptive is almost self-explanatory. Pallida means pale, or light colored. Plants with this specific epithet have light colored leaves or the blossoms are lighter than the standard species. A familiar example to many gardeners is the popular wildflower, Pale ConeflowerEchinacea pallida.
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Corn Poppy Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas is native to Europe and covered the scarred and barren battlefields of Flanders and France before becoming an introduced, naturalized wildflower throughout many areas of the U.S.
Before becoming an emblem of WW I, the Reverend William Wilks discovered a single flower of Papaver rhoeas with a white edge to the petal in the late 1800s. He harvested the seed pod and spent two decades breeding new strains from it. He named his new varieties "Shirley" after his Surrey parish.
The Corn Poppy is an annual that grows quickly and easily from seed, producing spring and summer blooms in shades of red, pink and white that wave proudly on erect stems above the foliage. Deadheading will reduce the volunteer seedlings in subsequent years.
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