The poppy referred to by McCrae is known today as the corn poppy or Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas), a common flower native to Europe, Trinklein says. Its seeds often lie dormant for years and ...

The red corn poppy is a beautiful but resilient little flower, and has been dotting the churned and bloody battlefields for centuries. The roots of the poppy's symbolism isn't just for the British ...

The corn poppy is a pesky weed, a sweet, delicate garden flower and, for the past century, the emblem of the human cost of war. The custom of wearing paper poppies to remember that cost has waned ...

In the fighting-turned soil of the fields, poppy seeds germinated during the abnormally warm weather in the spring of 1915. The corn poppy also bloomed in parts of the battlefield on the Gallipoli ...