Meconella

Meconella is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family. They are known generally as fairypoppies.

Meconella
Meconella denticulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Subfamily:	Papaveroideae
Tribe:	Platystemoneae
Genus:	Meconella Nutt.
Type species
Meconella oregana

Species

There are about 3 species:^[1]

Image	Name	Distribution
	Meconella californica – California fairypoppy	around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra foothills
	Meconella denticulata – smallflower fairypoppy	from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Peninsular Ranges
	Meconella oregana – white fairypoppy	Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia.

A fourth species, Meconella linearis,^[2] is sometimes treated as Platystigma linearis^[3] or Hesperomecon linearis.^[4]

The species are endemic from British Columbia, Canada south to California.