Genus
Eschscholzia (Desert poppies)
Eschscholzia californica. Photo: (c) John Barkla, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Eschscholzia is a genus of 12 annual or perennial plants in the Papaveraceae (poppy) family. The genus was named after the Baltic German/Imperial Russian botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793-1831).