Sure looks like it. I wonder if they might have harvested them for medicinal purposes. I’d imagine pain meds weren’t nearly as plentiful or readily available back then.
Maybe but I was thinking more like the poppies that LTC John McRae wrote about in his Poem "In Flanders Field".
Poppies supposedly grew where ever the soil was disturbed, and there was a lot of disturbed soil in that conflict. The overabundance of poppies resulted in the adoption of the flower for veteran’s day and verterans’ groups giving poppies in exchange for a donation to their cause.