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|accepted_name=Macleaya cordata
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) R. Brown in D. Denham and H. Clapperton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in D. Denham and H. Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, app.,
|place=218. 1826
|year=1826
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bocconia cordata
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2(2): 841. 1799
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Papaveraceae;Macleaya;Macleaya cordata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Papaveraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Macleaya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Macleaya cordata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 25 dm. <b>Stems</b> simple or branching distally. <b>Leaves</b> 10-30 cm long and wide; petiole 2-15(-20) cm; blade broadly ovate-cordate, 7-9-lobed; margins irregularly and coarsely toothed; abaxial surface usually whitish and densely short-pubescent, adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> to 30 cm or more. <b>Flowers</b>: pedicels 4-10 mm; sepals white to cream colored, spatulate, 5-10 mm; style to ca. 1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> oblanceoloid, strongly compressed, 15-20 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reticulate. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Deciduous woods, thickets, old fields, ditches, roadsides, pond margins, and along watercourses
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Va.;W.Va.;e Asia.
|discussion=<p>A garden perennial esteemed for its vegetative features and large, plumelike inflorescence, <i>Macleaya cordata</i> occasionally escapes from cultivation, persisting and reproducing fairly successfully. It might be found almost anywhere in temperate North America east of the Mississippi River at elevations below 1000 m.</p>
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name=Macleaya cordata
|authority=(Willdenow) R. Brown in D. Denham and H. Clapperton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bocconia cordata
|family=Papaveraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Deciduous woods, thickets, old fields, ditches, roadsides, pond margins, and along watercourses
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Va.;W.Va.;e Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in D. Denham and H. Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, app.,
|publication year=1826
|special status=Illustrated;Introduced
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|genus=Macleaya
|species=Macleaya cordata
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