The Poppy is a flowering herbaceous plant of the Papaveroideae subfamily in the Papaveraceae family. Poppies are plants that are often cultivated for their brightly colored flowers.
There are more than 120 species[1] of poppies in the Papaver genus, the genus to which the typical corn, field, or red Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), as well as the famous opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), belong.