Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across much of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: May-July

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees

Annual with stiff, bristly hairs, the branching stems 3-7 dm. tall.

Leaves alternate, basal and cauline, petiolate, the blades pinnately lobed or incised to divided.

Flowers single on long, bristly, terminal and axillary peduncles; sepals 2, separately early-deciduous; petals 4, 5-7 cm. long, usually scarlet with a black, basal or central blotch; stamens numerous; style absent, stigma sessile, disk-like, with 5-15 round, stigmatic ridges.

Capsule glabrous, sub-globose to broadly obovoid, 10-15 mm. long.