Posts Tagged ‘Sara Plummer Lemmon’
California Poppy Day: The Golden Bloom of the West
Poppy Day April 6, 2010 Every year since 2010, April 6 is California Poppy Day celebrating the California State Flower. Back in 1903, the botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon created legislation to make the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) the state flower of California. The botanical name Eschscholzia comes from a last name. In 1817, a Russian…
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The Golden Poppy Today is the anniversary of the death of Sara Plummer Lemmon. Lemmon is remembered for her successful 1903 piece of legislation that nominated the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California. Asa Gray named the genus Plummera in honor of Sara Plummer Lemmon. Plummera is yellow wildflowers in the…
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