Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 508 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 225 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): cvi. [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 33 [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: 138 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Argemone mexicana L.

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

• Etymology: "Argemone, Greco-Latin name mentioned by Dioscorides and Pliny as that of some plant of the Poppy family."

Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (December 1954), Papaveraceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(1): 114-116 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 26 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 138 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 178 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 28 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papaveraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 91 [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: 67 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Papaveraceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 170 [secondary reference]

Kadereit, J.W. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Papaveraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 504 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 55 [secondary reference]

Kiger, R.W. & Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Papaveraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 69 [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), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Ownbey, G.B. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Argemone. Flora of Australia 2: 390 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 65 [secondary reference]

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