Glaucium oxylobum

Glaucium oxylobum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Glaucium
Species:
G. secmenii
Binomial name
Glaucium secmenii
Synonyms
  • G. elegantissimum Mobayen
  • G. golestanicum A.Gran & Sharifnia
  • G. oxylobum var. paucilobatum (Freyn) Parsa
  • G. oxylobum subsp. rechingeri Mory
  • G. paucilobatum Freyn
  • G. pulchrum Stapf

Glaucium oxylobum, called Lotus sweetjuice, is a species of flowering plant in the horned poppy genus which is native to Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It was originally described by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Friedrich Alexander Buhse in 1860 in the 12th volume of the Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.