| Common Names - Poppy Family | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 26 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 256 |
| Plant forms - Herbs (mostly), or trees to shrubs (a few shrubs | |
| World Distribution - N. Temperate areas. Frigid zone to sub-tropical. Mainly North temperate, but also in Iceland, Central America and West Indies, South Africa and Eastern Australia. | |
| Comments - Herbs, subshrubs, treelets./1 genus with 9 species as trees. | |
| 1 - Argemone. 2 - Bocconia. 3 - Dendromecon. |