Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences:	Wet Mesic Mesic Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 9a
Plant Height:	12-15 inches
Plant Spread:	12 inches
Leaves:	Unusual foliage color
Fruit:	Showy
Fruiting Time:	Spring Summer
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	Orange Yellow
Bloom Size:	1"-2" 2"-3"
Flower Time:	Late winter or early spring Spring Late spring or early summer
Uses:	Will Naturalize
Toxicity:	Leaves are poisonous Roots are poisonous Fruit is poisonous Other: Bitter-tasting with orange sap
Propagation: Seeds:	Stratify seeds: Needs a warm period, then a cold period, then a cool period for germination. Sow in situ Other info: Seed will die if it dries out.
Propagation: Other methods:	Cuttings: Root
Pollinators:	Self Flies Bees
Containers:	Not suitable for containers

Common names

Celandine Poppy
Wood Poppy
Yellow wood poppy

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Location: My garden, Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens in South Amana, IA
Date: early spring

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Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2020-06-08
Pod was starting to open. Peeling it open revealed the seeds and

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-04-08

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Location: Millersville MD
Date: 2022-04-22

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Location: Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, Devon, Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-05-02

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-04-24

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Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-03-28

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Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-03-21

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Location: Woodbridge , Va
Date: 2018-05-01

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Location: Southern Indiana
Date: 04/14/2020

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Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-04-22

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Location: Charleston, SC
Date: 2020-04-08
received from Gardens of the Blue Ridge as a bare root

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Location: Reding SC gardens in Oklahoma City
Date: 2004-04-10

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Location: West shade garden
Date: 2016-05-05

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Location: Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2016-04-11
Zone 9b.

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2012-05-14
close up immature seed pod

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Location: National Botanical Garden, DC, Virginia :) | May, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-06-15

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Location: Hamilton Square Perennial Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2016-02-01
Zone 9b. A runner can also be seen.

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Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.

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Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2016-04-19

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Location: West shade garden
Date: May 2015

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Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8b
Date: 2012-05-15

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Location: Montreal Botanical Garden
Date: 2016-07-04

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-04-19

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Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 6/8/2011

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Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-18

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Location: Tennessee
courtesy Sunlight Gardens, www.sunlightgardens.com

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Location: Indiana Zone 5
Date: 2012-05-14

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Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2012-04-01

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Location: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
Date: May
credit: Erutuon.

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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 2016-05-02
Gray-green leaves in early spring

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Comments:

Posted by foraygardengirl (Minnesota - Zone 4a) on May 6, 2016 7:19 AM concerning plant:

My celandine poppies are in a very dry area, under a huge double-trunked cedar tree. They seem to be happy there and self-seed a bit. They do not go dormant for me and will bloom sporadically through the season. The foliage always looks nice.

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Posted by sherrilosee (Bloomington, IN - Zone 6a) on Aug 18, 2012 8:05 PM concerning plant:

They say this plant goes dormant in summer, but mine does not. In fact, it sent up blooms sporadically through June!

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Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Jan 15, 2012 9:47 AM concerning plant:

Celandine Poppy is a perennial with bluish-green lobed leaves; the plants form 1&1/2-foot clumps. From March to May, clusters of bright yellow, 2-inch buttercup-like flowers appear and are followed by nodding hairy green pods. Under dry conditions, the plant may go dormant in midsummer, otherwise it may flower on and off into fall. Celandine Poppy is a good wildflower for moist, rich, lightly wooded areas. It will self-sow and multiply when happy. (Sunlight Gardens)

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Posted by SCButtercup (Simpsonville SC - Zone 7b) on Aug 28, 2014 4:34 AM concerning plant:

In hot midsummer this plant dies off in my garden, even though it starts off early spring with a bang and is sheltered in a shaded, somewhat moist area. Probably it is not getting enough water when it's hot, but it comes back every spring, so I'm happy to have it. I may rig a watering system for this bed.

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Posted by sallyg (central Maryland - Zone 7b) on Aug 5, 2019 8:16 AM concerning plant:

I've grown this for some years in full shade with tree root competition, no special care. Lovely foliage and spring bloom. Foliage persists into summer though it may become ratty, or go dormant. Mine still has leaves now despite some very hot weather and a dry July. Slowly increasing by reseeding.

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Stylophorum Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

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Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)