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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Argemone mexicana L.
Mexican pricklypoppy

Argemone mexicana
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Papaveraceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Annual

Native Range: Eastern and central North America, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America; now a worldwide weed.

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Apparently Secure

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Not Cultivated

Comments: For more images, click on the Atlas of Vascular Plants link below.

Synonyms: A. leiocarpa.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Native

IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status: Rare

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in 1884 by J. Cosmo Melvill for the island of Key West. Reported in 1907 by C.F. Millspaugh for the lower sandy Keys. Reported in 1913 by John Kunkel Small for hammocks and disturbed sites in the lower and lower sandy Keys. All of our records for the middle and upper Keys are relatively recent, so we consider this as native and extant in the lower Keys and lower sandy Keys and assumed introduced in the middle and upper Keys.

Other data on Argemone mexicana available from :


Argemone mexicana has been reported from the following 7 conservation areas in the FLORIDA KEYS :
Occurrence Native Status
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section Present Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park Present Native
Dry Tortugas National Park Presumed Extirpated Native
Indian Key Historic State Park Reported
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Reported
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park Present Native
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park Present Native




Argemone mexicana has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Argemone mexicana
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer