MICHIGAN WEEDS. 



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POPPY FAMILY. PAPAVERACEAE. 



Herbs with milky or colored juice including poppies, blocdroot, celandine. 

 A very small family widely dispersed in north temperate regions. 



Fig. 84 (77;. 



Celandine. Chelidonium ma jus L. Perennial herbs, with saffron-colored acrid 

 juice, 30-60 cm. high leaves variously divided and cut-lobed; flowers small, yellow, 

 often double; fruit linear-cylindric, opening by two valves, 2-5 cm. long. 



Naturalized from Europe. 



