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Coquelicot or coquelico (KOHK-lee-koh) is a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. The flower is distinguished by its bright red colour, and orange tint. It eventually passed into English usage as the name of a colour based upon that of the flower. The first recorded use of this usage was in the year 1795.
Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...

 painted "Les Coquelicots" or "Poppies Blooming" in 1873.
The California poppy

California poppy

The California poppy is a perennial and annual plant, native to the United States, and the official state flower of California.- Description :...

 is coloured a shade of golden

Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of orange-yellow color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold....

 called golden poppy.