Keyed Out #057 — Romneya coulteri

Question 1

Dozens of separate {stamens} crowd the middle of a wide bowl, and the {petals} around them open creased like tissue that was folded away in the bud, never flat and glossy.

Accepted Answer

poppy family

Question 2

One dry pod follows each flower, opening from its tip into {valves} to spill hundreds of dust-fine seeds; it does not peel apart from the base around a papery partition, nor break sideways into a ring of one-seeded segments.

Accepted Answer

Papaveraceae

Question 3

Its waxy blue-grey blades are cut deep into lance-shaped {lobes} whose edges run smooth, with no spine-tipped teeth along the margin and no whitened veins.

Accepted Answer

Romneya

Question 4

Woody-based stems 4 to 8 feet (1.2 to 2.4 m) tall rise from deep creeping {rhizomes} that throw up {suckers} well beyond the original clump, not from a single {taproot} under a low herb.

Accepted Answer

Romneya

Question 5

The fat bud beneath the flower is smooth and hairless to the touch, with no coat of stiff appressed bristles over it.

Accepted Answer

Romneya coulteri

Question 6

Its leaves are set singly, one to a node and alternating up the stem, never in opposing pairs facing each other across it.

Accepted Answer

Romneya coulteri