I happened to glance at this news photo http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020410/168/1dlpy.html the other day and it struck me that the poppies in the picture looked remarkably like the poppies (red and white with frilly petals) that I saw in a neighbor’s yard last year.
Is there an easy way to tell the difference between an opium poppy and the ornamental kind, just by looking at the plants?