Finally, the "wild" poppy he described is believed to be Papaver orientale.

Hand in hand, we crossed the field of wild poppies, crushing sweet grass and pale green leaves beneath our tread.

Winters explains that the "native wild white poppy produced an opium equal in strength and effectiveness to the imported product."

Golden Valley is named for the rare blooms of wild poppies and other wildflowers that carpet the desert floor after an exceptionally wet winter.

"It started out with only a few people growing wild poppies," said Francisco Muelas, the tribal chief's agricultural adviser.

They also grew and harvested from large fields of wild poppies whose cultivation Zoe guessed was for opium.

Long grass fringed the water, littered with wild poppies.

There were wild poppies growing in the ditches.

A huge standing urn, deep blue with wild oversize poppies splashed over the surface, held a leafy Roosevelt fern.

Or would the seeds turn up in some little round pod somewhere, like those wild poppies that form antique pepper-shakers for their seeds?