California poppies in peak bloom at the medicine garden. The bright orange against deep green is unmistakable in late spring at Gaia's Garden in Arkansas.

California poppies in bright orange flower at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas, three blooms open in the medicinal herb garden

Photographed April 23, 2026 in Gaia Devi Stillwagon's medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas's Ouachita foothills.

This is California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), grown in our medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas.

Tags: California Poppy flowers growing in the medicinal herb garden.