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The beauty and brightly colored papery flowers of the stately poppies make them a favorite in rock gardens and borders. The single-blossomed kinds widely range in color from white, pink, and rose to yellow, orange, and scarlet. There are also double varieties, some with fringed petals. The poppies are native chiefly to the Old World (Europe and Southwest Asia), but a few grow wild in North America. These plants have lobed or dissected leaves, milky sap; and four to six petal flowers on solitary stalks. The short, many-seeded capsules open in dry weather, permitting the small seeds to scatter. The opium poppy of Europe and Asia has been widely cultivated for its sap, from which are produced narcotic drugs. It is also widely grown and known for its non-narcotic seeds, which are used for bread seasoning, oil, and birdseed. Certain strains of the plant are popular garden arrangements.

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Thousands of years ago the opium poppy was found to yield a powerful substance. In small doses it had a sedative effect and produced calm; in larger doses it had a hypnotic effect and induced sleep; in still larger doses it had a narcotic or analgesic effect and rendered the user insensitive to pain. This substance opium became, through the centuries, one of the principal medicines for relieving pain; it was one of mankind's first narcotics. Narcotics are drugs that produce relief from pain, a state of stupor or sleep, and eventually addiction, or physical dependence. Since their main therapeutic use is for pain relief, such drugs are often called narcotic analgesics.

Around fifty other species of poppies are grown for their attractive flowers and very unusual foliage. The Oriental poppy of Southwest Asia has scarlet, salmon, pink, white, or red blooms. The bi-colored Shirley poppy is a variety of the corn poppy, well remembered since World War I as the poppy of Flanders fields. The peacock poppy from Afghanistan has dark-spotted, scarlet blooms. Poppies belong to the poppy family, Papaveraceae, especially to the genus Papaver. The opium poppy is Papaver somniferum; the Oriental poppy, Papaver orientale; the corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas; and the peacock poppy, Papaver pavoninum. The California poppy belongs to a different genus, Eschscholzia Californica.

The most common families of poppies (Papaveraceae) are: The plume poppy, celandine, California poppy, flaming poppy, creamcups, bloodroot, celandine poppy, argemone, tree poppy, and sea poppy. North America has its own poppy: The poppy mallow, its genus is Callirhoe of annual and perennial plants of the mallow family; has a pink or red-purple terminal flower. All of these poppies do not produce opium. The only poppy flower to produce opium belongs to the family Papaver somniferum.