

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, as has the species. It is frequently a feature of cultivated wildflower meadows. Ladybird poppies are also excellent cut flowers, and they make a beautiful addition to any bouquet. These poppies are easy to grow and care for, and they will bloom for several weeks in the spring. It bears many flowers on each plant and blooms from late spring to early summer. Ladybird poppies (Papaver paeoniflorum) are beautiful annual flowers that are perfect for adding a splash of color to any garden. commutatum 'Ladybird' is a popular and easy garden annual for a sunny position in a moist, fertile spot.

Easy to grow, it can be sown directly in the garden and it offers a spectacula. The Latin specific epithet commutatum means “changed”, referring to a change of name from another species. We decided to reintroduce this charming dazzling red with black blotch poppy.

The flowers are followed by spherical seed heads. A delicate bloomer hailing from Turkey and Iran, Lady Bird Poppy seeds grow intense red blooms, marked with splotches that resemble a black cross at its. The flower is bowl-shaped and about 8 cm (3 in) in diameter, bright red with prominent black blotches at the bases of the petals, and is borne in early summer. It is an erect annual growing to 45 cm (18 in) tall by 15 cm (6 in) wide, with hairy stalks and leaves. Papaver commutatum, the Caucasian scarlet poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae native to northern Turkey, northwestern Iran and the Caucasus.
