Poppy species

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Please comment if these Papaver species are correctly identified.
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yes but the first might be Papaver somniferum ssp. setigerum\
the others seem correct
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Thank you.

The reason I reckon it ssp. somniferum is that according to Flora Europaea:

ssp. somniferum: 8-12 ( -18 ) stigmatic rays

ssp. setigerum: 5-8 stigmatic ray

and the specimen on my pic has 10 stigmatic rays.
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I had the same problem John, and actually you can be right, though I have witnessed large specimens of subsp. segiterum with a max of 10 rays!
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