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Definition of Matilija poppy
1. Noun. Tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Romneya, Romneya
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matilija Poppy
Literary usage of Matilija poppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"The matilija poppy (Romneya Coulteri) By Bertha M. Rice The most regally handsome
poppy in the world is the giant white poppy, the stately Matilija, ..."
2. The Golden Poppy by Emory Evans Smith (1902)
"This antipathy to transplanting applies as well to the allied members of the
family,— the matilija poppy, the tree poppy, the Mexican poppy, etc. ..."
3. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"... (matilija poppy). The Romneya is beyond doubt the finest of all wild flowers,
none of the newly introduced varieties of the Poppy family being equal to ..."
4. Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (1914)
"The name is best known as applied to the matilija poppy, that flower of the gods
which has its native habitat along the banks of the creek. ..."
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