The golden poppy has been the official state flower for 120 years, the second state symbol California ever adopted. So how did it achieve such esteemed status?

The California Poppy adorns many state, county and city seals in the Golden State, but how long has this brilliantly orange and yellow flower served as the state flower?

Bay Curious listener Josh Brett grew up Oakland, and was told from a young age that it is illegal to pick California’s state flower: the golden poppy. “It was sort of just common knowledge as a kid ...

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is a tough, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, self-seeding California native wildflower. It is indigenous to western North America.

Every Spring the California desert hills explode in vibrant blossoming wildflowers and the state flower, The California poppy.

Another proposal moving through the Legislature this year would name the Golden Chanterelle the state mushroom, joining the ranks of the Golden Poppy and California Redwood as beatified state flora.

There was a common rumor popular among millennial children growing up in the Bay Area: it's illegal, and maybe even punishable by law, to pick a golden poppy. And it wasn't just told to 90s kids ...

“Today the golden poppy became the State flower of California by reason of the fact that Governor Pardee signed the bill to that effect, which had passed both houses,” announced the Oakland ...

The iconic French-born, California-based chef Dominique Crenn brings her inimitable culinary approach to Paris for the first time with Golden Poppy.

Bright 1-to-2-inch golden-yellow poppies with four petal-like sepals bloom in clusters on the ends of 18-inch stems from March through May, bringing welcome color to gardens early in the year.