You have 2 kinds of poppys here....Oriental and Opium...or somnifera I believe.
Not sure what your question is....
Linda C

Lindac,
The seeds for these Poppies came from one plant,I guess my question is how did I get 3 different poppies from the seeds of one plant,

Hi Thistle,
The plant you collected seeds could have been cross pollinated with another plant. It did not have to be close by. Flowers can be long distances apart and still cross.
Also if you collected various pods, you could of collected seeds of a few varieties that were growing together looking like one plant, but not know it because of the flowers having already bloomed.
Another thing to know is you will also get a variety of assorted seedlings if a plant is a hybrid. Though I'm not sure if there are poppy hybrids.
Remy

You couldn't have gotten those different plants from seeds from the same plant. They are different species...they don't cross breed.
Linda C

I got these poppies....both Shirley and Opium from saved seed in trade...I've got all kinds of shades of red, pink, purple and all I can say is...WOW!
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Wow Vera,you have made me a believer in the beauty of Poppies,I will be trying them again next year,only this time I will make sure I have a seeds from a reliable source.

Thistle,
I like them just the same. I mixed them all....all the annual poppies, that is. I have a patch of different kinds. They take turn blooming and therefore, prolonging the blooms. All my seeds came from trades. BTW, your first three are all annuals. Don't see any perennial there. Can't see the last two.

Vera, I gotta have some of your poppy seeds. :-D They are so pretty......

Your leaf pics aren't there.

I don't know-- to me, the first and third pictures look like papaver rhoeas, aka shirley poppies. The first one could be a cultivar like 'falling in love', which has some colors like in your photo. The third picture looks quite like your standard p. rhoeas (shirley), sometimes also called corn poppies. See how the ovary (center) is different than that of a somniferum or orientalis poppy? And aside from coloring, the first and third poppies are quite the same as each other. Your second picture, however, looks like a papaver somniferum paeoniflorum (peony breadseed poppy). All three of these pictures, if I am correctly identifying them, are annuals. I am not able to see your foliage pics. Are you sure these all came from the same plant? The flowers are quite different. Maybe the plants were just planted very close together? This would make more sense to me. Regardless, I hope you get it figured out!

Amanda 'romando'