Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 506 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 224 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de (1821), Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 2: 79 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Poppy [n/a]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 63 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 4, 140 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 8 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 32 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 136 [secondary reference]

• Type: Papaver somniferum L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 239 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin name of Poppy.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 366 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of Poppy"

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 25 [secondary reference]

common name: Poppy [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Poppy [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 151 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 177 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 26-27 [secondary reference]

common name: Poppy [n/a]

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papaveraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 91 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 146, 147 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 172 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Papaveraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 195-197 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Papaveraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 68 [secondary reference]

Kadereit, J.W. (1987), A revision of Papaver L. sect. Papaver (Papaveraceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 108: 1-16 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Papaveraceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 171 [secondary reference]

Kadereit, J.W. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Papaveraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 505, Fig. 107C [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 56 [secondary reference]

Kiger, R.W. & Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Papaveraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 69-70 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Papaveraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 170 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Kiger, R.W. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Papaveraceae. Flora of Australia 2: 392 [secondary reference]

common name: Poppy [n/a]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 627-628 [secondary reference]

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