Wood Poppy Flower
Stylophorum diphyllum
                    
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left Wood Poppy Flower right
 
2006 Photograph, Wood Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum, Poppy Family, Papaveraceae), Fairfax Villa Park, Fairfax, Virginia, © 2020.
The specific name  refers to the two leaves below the flower stalks, although there are other, larger, leaves as well radiating up from the base of the plant.
Jian Zhe Li

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