A close-up of California poppy at Gaia's Garden. The lacy, almost-blue foliage is one of the easiest ways to identify Eschscholzia californica even before the orange blooms appear.

A single California poppy flower in bright orange with its lacy gray-green foliage at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas

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.

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