somniferum

It is legal to grow Papaver somniferum in the United States for garden and seed production purposes.

Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) got about the place quite a bit (according to archaeologists at least.

Interestingly, the wikipedia article for papaver somniferum includes the op version of the story, linking to op as a source.

In German the name for papaver somniferum is Schlafmohn, Schlaf being the German word for sleep.

One can easily buy dried pods of papaver somniferum, found on the first few result pages of a google search.

I've always had an amateur historian bent when it comes to drug history, especially that of Papaver somniferum.

The field poppy ( Papaver rhoeas ), not the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum ), is used as a symbol on Remembrance Day.

Every other country that grows Papaver Somniferum and processes it to opium is a target for military action to reduce the supply of illegal opiates.

The poppy that produces opium is the Breadseed Poppy Papaver somniferum.

I did some searching and couldn't find any primary sources that said growing Papaver somniferum in the United States is legal.

You can buy opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) plants in the US.

No, it was definitely Papaver somniferum, opium poppy.

In the original sentence, "contains morphine" is probably modifying "compound", not “poppy plant” --- "Opium" is the dried latex (milky fluid) that comes from the seed capsules of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).

E.g., a man was charged for importing 18kg of DMT when he ordered 18kg of Mimosa tenuiflora root bark online, as the bark isn't explicitly handled in law as a prohibited plant like Coca leaf (class C, far lower severity of sentencing) and Papaver somniferum (class B), so it falls through to the default of "any substance containing a class A controlled substance is also class A".