The red poppy, known as the Flanders or corn poppy, continues to symbolize sacrifices made by veterans. Courtesy MelindaMyers.com. Memorial ...

Memorial Day weekend may prompt visions of the red poppy known as Flanders or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas). This beautiful ...

Nearly a century later, the poppy still is used to pay tribute to our fallen military heroes. Memorial Day weekend is an appropriate time to take a closer look at this colorful flower steeped with ...

With their brilliant orange-red paper-like blooms, corn poppies add a ton of color to the garden. They are also called field poppies, a reference to this wildflower’s tendency to naturalize in open ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. After the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas floated down into the trenches of World War I for the ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

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