Papaver humile, Humble Poppy,
Hebrew: פרג נחות, Arabic: الخشخاش المنخفض

Scientific name:		Papaver humile Fedde
Common name:		Humble Poppy
Hebrew name:		פרג נחות
Arabic name:		الخشخاش المنخفض
Family:		Papaveraceae, פרגיים

Life form:		Annual
Stems:		15-40 cm
Leaves:		Alternate, rosette, dissected, dentate or serrate
Inflorescence:		Solitaire
Flowers:		Red, stigmas on a sessile disc at top of ovary
Fruits / pods:		Capsule
Flowering Period:		April, May, June
Habitat:		Shrub-steppes, Desert
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts
Chorotype:		Saharo-Arabian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name: Papaver, the classical Latin name for the poppy. humile, low, low-growing, humble. Poppy, derived from the Old English popæg and referring to various species of Papaver. The Hebrew name: pereg, פרג (sometimes parag) derives from the Sanskrit word priyangu, meaning "foxtail millet" (or "panic seed".) . It is found in the plural - פרגין - in the Mishna (Sheviit 2:7, Chalah 1:4) and in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 13b), listed together with other crops that aren't full grains like shumshum שומשום - sesame and orez אורז - rice. The standard author abbreviation Fedde is used to indicate Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873 - 1942), a German botanist. Hybridazation often occurs among Papaver rhoeas P.carmeli, P. humile and P. umbonatum.