| Oreomecon polaris | |
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| On Severnaya Zemlya in Russia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Papaveraceae |
| Genus: | Oreomecon |
| Species: | O. polaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Oreomecon polaris (Tolm.) Krivenko | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oreomecon polaris is an Arctic species of plant in the poppy family.
Oreomecon polaris is a small plant with as dense to somewhat loose tuft of basal leaves. It grows just 10 centimeters tall. [1]
Its leaves reach 4 cm long with a leaf stem as much as half as long as the leaf itself. They are blue-green to green on both sides and broadly lanceolate, shaped like a wide spear head, to more or less egg-shaped. Each leaf's sides are divided into two or three pairs of lobes. [1]
The flowers are yellow to white in color and as much as 3 cm in diameter. They are found on the curving, leafless stems that are densely covered in dark hairs. Blooming can occur in June or July. [1]
Oreomecon polaris was scientifically described as a subspecies of Papaver radicatum named polare in 1923 by the botanist Alexander Tolmachov. It was raised to species status as Papaver polare in 1949 in a publication by Ivan Aleksandrovich Perfiljev. It was moved to the genus Oreomecon in 2023 by Denis A. Krivenko. It has 17 synonyms. [2]
| Name | Year | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oreomecon cornwallisensis(D.Löve) Elvebakk & Bjerke | 2024 | species | = het. |
| Oreomecon dahliana subsp. polaris(Tolm.) Elvebakk & Bjerke | 2024 | subspecies | ≡ hom. |
| Oreomecon uschakovii(Tolm. & V.V.Petrovsky) Elvebakk & Bjerke | 2024 | species | = het. |
| Papaver cornwallisenseD.Löve | 1956 | species | = het. |
| Papaver dahlianum var. hadacianumÁ.Löve | 1955 | variety | = het. |
| Papaver dahlianum subsp. polare(Tolm.) Elven & Ö.Nilsson | 2000 | subspecies | ≡ hom. |
| Papaver langeanum(C.E.Lundstr.) Tolm. | 1960 | species | = het. |
| Papaver nudicaule var. albiflorumLange | 1880 | variety | = het. |
| Papaver polare(Tolm.) Perfil. | 1949 | species | ≡ hom. |
| Papaver radicatum var. albiflorum(Lange) Porsild | 1912 | variety | = het., nom. illeg. |
| Papaver radicatum f. glabriusculumHartz | 1895 | form | = het. |
| Papaver radicatum f. parvifoliumSerg. | 1931 | form | = het. |
| Papaver radicatum subsp. polareTolm. | 1923 | subspecies | ≡ hom. |
| Papaver radicatum f. pygmaeumHartz | 1895 | form | = het. |
| Papaver rubroaurantiacum subsp. langeanumC.E.Lundstr. | 1923 | subspecies | = het. |
| Papaver uschakoviiTolm. & V.V.Petrovsky | 1973 | species | = het. |
| Papaver uschakovii subsp. tichomiroviiKozhevn. | 1979 | subspecies | = het. |
| Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym ; = heterotypic synonym | |||
Oreomecon polaris is native to many areas of the Arctic including Nunavut in northern Canada and Greenland. It grows in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the far north of Europe and also to much of northern Russia from Europe to western Siberia. [2] They can be found from sealevel to 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) in elevation. [1]
It grows on nearly barren areas of the Arctic tundra in both rocky and clay soils. [1]