POPPIES I HAVE KNOWN

I wish I knew the varieties pictured above. I know the orange California poppies, but I don't know the names of the two varieties of red ones and the white ones that are lined up behind the calendulas. Here are some close-ups of the different varieties:

Here's one variety of red.

Here's another.

I do know that my poppies are doing strange things that don't look right to me.

Look at this California poppy that has been a great bloomer on the slope. All of a sudden it starts leaning away from the center, leaving a whole in the middle and looking sick. I don't remember this happening last year. I removed another one that was in front of the red poppies in the top picture, and it had started looking like this one and then today I noticed it seemed to be dead. I pulled the stems and they came up with no resistance. A gopher? It didn't look like a gopher's work.

Here's another example. This time it's the red poppies. What does make poppies do this?

Just recently I noticed the white poppies. They started to open a couple of days ago. The buds looked brown and I was wondering if it was some sort of disease. Then, when they opened, they were white -- not red. And then I wondered if the buds were different because the flowers were going to be a different color.

Here's the close-up of flower and bud. Notice how part of the bud is brown and the rest is green.